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Memphis, Tennessee, 



A copy of //lis J^oluiiie will be presented to each lot oxvner, and to those who 
hereafter become lot oivners in Ebmoood. Other persons may secure copies by apply- 
ing to the Secretary of the Association, and paying the cost of the Book. 



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JOSEPH LENOW, President. 

JOHN H. LENOW, Secretary and Treasurer 

SAMUEL W. PHILLIPS. Superintendent. 



Joseph Lenow, James M. Williamson, 

WiLiE B. Miller, J. D. Williams, 

A. N. Edmonds, Charles Kortrecht, 

William B7Hamlix, James T. Leath, 
CiTARLi:s W. Cover. 



ELMAA^OOD: 



CHARTER, 

RULES, REGULATIONS AND BY-LAWS 



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Eliriwood Cemetery Association 



OF MEMPHIS. 



History of the Cemetery. 



BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 



ATTRACTIVE MONUMENTS. 



Names of Proprietors. 



Memphis, Tenn : 
JBoyle &' Chapman, Prinicrs, Publishers and Binders, Wo. 279 Main Street. 

1874. 



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CONTENTS. 



(preface, . . . . . . . .5 

Introduction, . . . . . . . 7 

Original Organization, . .... 13 

Act of Incorporation, ...... 16 

Amended Charter, ...... ig 

Acts of the Legislature of Tennessee, . . . 26 

(By=Laivs, ........ 30 

(Reorganization of the Corporation, • ' - 33 

(Regulations for Interments and Funerals, . . 36 
(Public deceiving Tomb, . . . . -37 

(Rights of Sepulture to Colored People, . . 38 

Tolling the (Bell, 3g 

Office Hours, ....... 3g 

Pules governing Undertakers and others, . . 40 

Purchase of Lots, Price, etc., . ... 40 

Single Graves, ....... 41 

(Brick Graves, ....... 42 

Foundations for Headstones and Monuments, prices, etc. 42 

Pules concerning Improvements on Lots, . . 43 

Form of (Deed, ....... 4^ 

Form of Secretary's Order, . ... 46 

Ptdes and Pegulations for Lot=H older s and Visitors, 4J 

Form of Tickets of Admission, etc., . . ' 5^ 



Contents. 



PAGE. 



(Perpdual Fund to Keep Lots in Order , 

How to Secure Tickets of Admission ^ . 

How to Care for Lots and Monuments, 

Mode of Conducting (Business, . 

A Catalogue of (Books, etc., 

CASH SYSTEM, .... 

Abstract of Corporate (kights. 

How to (keach Elmwood, 

A Map of the Cemetery, 

(Perpetual Fund, how created. 

Society Lots, ..... 

General Facts and description of El?nwood 

The Future of the Cemetery, 

General Suggestions, .... 

The Old Morris Cemetery, 

Caution to (Depredators, 

Trees, ....... 

What (Poets and (People have Said, 
Epitaphs, . . . . . ■ . 

Sub=divisions of Elmwood, . 
Monuments, ..... 

(Biographical Sketches Alphabetically Arranged, 
Mortuary Statistics, .... 

The Confederate (bead, 

JJames of Confederate and Federal Soldiers 

List of (Proprietors, .... 



'' Curbing' 



(Regulations, 



Erratum. — For Shoemaker, on page 150, read Shoemake. 



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Men write histories of living cities. The din that is 
never silenced, toil that knows no rest, crime that stalks 
abroad at night, and wretched poverty in rags, and 
wealth arrayed in splendor and beauty — all these are 
described in books. Why not write the *stor)' of the 
Silent City of the Dead? Why not tell who and what 
they were, and what they did — they who rest, each in 
his "narrow house," in dreamless, painless repose? It 
is well too, to turn backward the tide of oblivion that 
came down upon us with war, and obliterated memories 
of good and great men who had almost lived and died 
in vain. For such a purpose, in part, this modest 
publication is made. Its defects are many. Its state- 
ments are necessarily most brief. This resulted from 
the fact that there was such a number to be sketched, 
.and from the fact, almost inexplicable, that friends and 



VI Preface. 

relatives of the dead refused or neglected to turnish the- 
information often sought at their hands. It was for these 
reasons absolutely impossible to advert, in all instances, 
to marriages, and the worth of women whose excellence, 
never questioned, could only be asserted. In most 
instances the public is indebted for personal descriptions 
and facts, affecting the dead, to the memory of the writer, 
who confesses, after a residence of a quarter of a century 
in Memphis, that he has more friends in the City of the 
Dead than of the living — in Elmwood than in Memphis,- 




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The word burial is derived from a Teutonic source, 
and signifies to hide or conceal. In its famihar use, it is 
now ahnost exchisively appropriated to disposing of the 
dead, by depositing the remains in mother earth. Among 
civiHzed nations the final di:-:posal of those w^ho have been 
loved and lost has always been a matter of deep concern 
to the living. Hence arose funeral customs, accompa- 
nied often with too much pomp and display ; and hence, 
too, the erection of tasteful monuments and costly mau- 
soleums to perpetuate the memory of the distinguished 
dead. None but barbarous nations are indifferent to 
the burial of the dead, leaving their remains exposed to 
the sight cf the living, to be devoured as prey by vul- 
tures and carnivorous beasts. 

Three modes have been generally used to hide or con- 
ceal the dead from the sight of the living. As. 

1. Inclosing the body in earth or stone. 

2. Incremation, or burning the bod), and entombing 
the ashes or cinders ; and 

3. Embalming. 



Introduction. 



Among the Greeks the corpses that were not burnt 
were burled in coffins, which were made of various ma- 
terials, but usually of baked clay (Jcn'-a-cotta) or earth- 
enware. Those who were buried were placed in a 
coffin, which was frequently made of stone, and some- 
times of that from Assos, in Troas, which consumed 
all the body, with the exception of the teeth, in forty 
days, whence it obtained the name of "Sarcophagus" 
(^ flesh catcr^, which was gradually extended to other 
stone coffins. The Egyptians practiced embalming, 
and cultivated the art to such an extent that " Egyptian 
corpses, as inoffensive as any article of wood or stone, 
are scattered over Europe in museums, and are even 
to be found as curiosities in private houses." As an 
instance of comparatively modern embalming, it may 
be mentioned here, " that in the vault of the monastery 
of Kreuzberg, at Bonn, the monks have been success- 
ively preserved in their costume for centuries." The 
Scriptures give well-known examples of burials in each 
of the methods specified. Abraham buried out of his 
sight the body of Sarah in the cave of Macpelah ; the 
bodies of Saul and his three sons were recovered, after 
the disastrous battle on Mount Gilboa, and burnt at 
Jabesh ; and Jacob and Joseph were embalmed in Egypt. 
Not to receive the rieht of burial in some one of the 
ways mentioned, was regarded among the Jews as a sad 
calamity, or as a mark of scorn and derision. Hence 
Jeremiah prophesied of wicked Jehoiakim — " He shall 
be buried with the burial of an ass, drawn and cast forth 
beyond the gates of Jerusalem." 

It was the custom of the Jews to bury without the 
gates of their cities. The Greeks also generally buried 
the dead outside their towns, as it was thought that their 



Introduction. 



presence in the city brought polhition on the hving. At 
Athens the dead were, at an early period, buried in their 
own houses ; but, in historical times, none were allowed 
to be buried within the city. Lycurgus, with the view 
of removing all superstitions relative to the dead, allowed 
burials in Sparta. Persons who possessed lands in 
Attica were often buried in them ; but the tombs were 
mostly by the side of roads, and near the gates of the 
city. The Romans, in the most ancient times, buried 
their dead, although they adopted the custom of burning 
them at an early date. The urns which contained the 
ashes of the dead were placed in sepulchres, which were 
mostly outside of, though in a few instances, we read of 
them being buried within the city. The Etruscan urns 
were very rich in art, and were made of terra-cotta, or 
cooked earth. Some of these have been found in Etru- 
ria so large that they appear to have been coffins for 
containing the whole body.* The places for burial at 
Rome were either public or private ; the public were of 
two kinds, one for illustrious citizens, who were buried 
at the public expense, and the other for the poor, who 
were thrown into pits or caverns. Private places for 
burial were usually by the sides of roads leading into 
Rome, and on some of these, such as the Appian Way, 
the tombs formed an almost uninterrupted street for 
many miles from the gates of the city. The eye of the 
wayfarer was often arrested with the epitaph — Mora7'e 
viator ! which is the " Stop, traveler! " etc., of our day. 

Upon the introduction of Christianity into the world, 
the custom of burying in churches and churchyards soon 



* " Vessels of this kind were found in the Valley of the ScamauHer by some British officers, 
while spending their leisure time after the seige of Sebastopol, upon the ground supposed to have 
been occupied by the besiegers of Troy." — Cham F.ncy. 



lO Introduction. 



arose among Christian nations. This practice seems to 
have originated in a superstitious faith in the sanctity of 
saintly rehcs. These rehcs were buried near or under 
the altars of churches, which were consecrated each to 
the sacred memory of some patron saint. Then, natu- 
rally, arose a strong desire to be buried near these sacred 
remains, and close to the consecrated spot. Hence 
the origin of burials in churches and churchyards, the 
most eminent for piety and rank being buried in the 
former, and the more humble multitude in the latter. 

It requires no unusual amount of human reason to see 
that the crowding of dead bodies into the churches and 
churchyards of populous towns and cities must have soon 
made these mortuary receptacles offensive and unhealthy. 
Whoever would roll back the curtain of Time and con- 
template the manner of interments in London, a little 
more than two hundred years ago, can have his curiosity 
gratified in the following extracts, taken from the cele- 
brated diary of Samuel Pepys. That quaint old author 
made the following entry on the i8th of March. 1663 : 

" To church, and, with the grave-maker, chose a place 
for my brother to lie in, just under my mother's pew. 
But to see how a man's bones are at the mercy of such a 
lellow, that, for six pence, he would (as his own words 
were), ' I will justle them together, but I will make room 
for hini ; ' speaking of the fullness of the middle aisle, 
where he was to lie." 

Again, upon the subsidence of the plague in London, 
he records, the 30th January. 1665-6, thus : 

" This is the first time I have been in the church (St. 
Olive's, Hart street), since I left London for the plague, 
and it frightened me indeed to go through the church 
more than I thought it could ha\e done, to see so many 



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graves lie so hig-h upon the churchyards, where people 
have been buried of the plague. I was much troubled 
at it, and do not think to go through it again a good 
while. * * * J f^j-i(^ many about the city that live 
near the churchyards solicitous to have the churchyards 
covered with lime, and I think it is needful, and ours, I 
hope, will be done." 

Such feculent reservoirs of disease, located in popu- 
lous town and cities, must have been a prolific source of 
those dreadful scourges which have so often, in the past, 
visited and ravaged the human race. That an advanced 
state of civilization should have so long tolerated the 
custom of intramural interments, gives cause for pro- 
found astonishment ; and affords sad proof how^ difficult 
it is to eradicate customs founded on religious preju- 
dices. It was not until 1854, when Mr. Chadwick, and' 
other sanitary reformers, attacked the time-honored sys- 
tem of interments within city churchyards, that it re- 
ceived a check in England. This salutary movement 
resulted in the passage of several stringent Burial Acts 
in England, which have closed the graveyards in towns 
and cities for burial purposes, and placed interments in; 
open cemeteries under the control of sanitary boards. 

The cemetery system (the word cemetery, meaning in 
Greek a sleeping-chamber^ has now, happily for the 
world, been almost universally adopted in Europe and' 
America as a substitute for city graveyards. Though, 
of recent origin, yet scarcely any important city or town 
in this country or in Europe is without one or more of 
such burial-grounds, more or less extensive, and more or 
less ornamented, or tastefully arranged. Being associ- 
ated with fine natural scenery, beautiful trees and flow- 
ers and w^orks of monumental art, they afford an attract- 
ive place for recreation, and thus tend rather to improve 



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than to injure the health of the Hving. The aesthetic 
art has been cultivated so successfully in beautifying 
many of the American cemeteries as to make their ap- 
pearance so attractive as almost to disarm Death of his 
sting and terror. 

The best fashion ever set by the city of Paris, to be 
followed by the cities of Europe and the United States, 
was the establishing of Pere-la-Chaise, the oldest and 
most celebrated of European cemeteries. This was in 
1804. Paris has now fifteen cemeteries ; and she doubt- 
less adopted this' plan of burial from the Turks, whose 
beautiful burial-grounds, extending over large tracts of 
country, adorned with cedars, firs, and other evergreens, 
have long been the admiration of all foreigners who have 
visited them. 

A word of admonition, in conclusion. Of all the en- 
emies of man. Death is the most inexorable. He spares 
neither sex nor age, nor rank nor condition. Could the 
"speechless ages" of the past enumerate their dead, 
the number would far exceed the census of the livingf. 
The tumuli, barrows, and cromlechs — burial-mounds of 
a prehistoric age — which are found all over the world 
(10,000 of them being in the State of Ohio alone), show 
that the earth itself is but a vast cemetery. As the 
proverb says — "the young may soon die, but the old 
mnsty Therefore, at any time it niay be said of any 
one living — abiit ad viajorcs, or, "he has joined the 
majority." Let no one, then, live as an example of 
the truth of what Horace said of some of the Romans : 
" You build houses of five hundred by a hundred feet, 
forgetting that of six by two." The old familiar epitaph 
teaches a useful lesson : 

"As I am, so must you l)e; 
Therefore prepare to follow inc." 



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ORIGINAL ORGANIZATION 



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On the 28th of August, 1852, the following named 
gentlemen, fifty in number, each subscribed for one share 
of $500 in the capital stock of Elmwood Cemetery 
Association. The whole capital thus accumulated was 
$25,000. The shareholders proposed to establish a 
proper Cemetery in the vicinity of Memphis. Their 
•names are as follows : 



ALLEN, THOS. H. 
AVEKY, W. T. 
AYKES, T. S. 
BAXTER, FRED. 
BOOTH, W. A. 
BRINKLEY, R. C. 
BAILEY, SYLVESTER, 
CARNES, JAMES A. 
CHAMBLISS, THOMAS, 
CHURCH, CHARLES B. 
EOWLER, JOHN W. 



GUION. H. L. 
GRIFFIN G, J. C. 
GRAHAJSr, B. 
GOFF, J. D. 
GRAY, J. H. 
HOWARD, .1. M. 
HOPKINS, A. M. 
LEATHERMAN, D. M. 
LENOW, JOSEPH, 
.AIILLER, W. B. 
MONTGOMERY, A. J. 



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MEKRILL, A. P. SHELBY, JOHN, 

M08ELY, .1. B. BAFFAllANS, J. L. 

MARTIN, JOHN, TOWNSEND, DAVID H. 

MAYDWELL, C. C. TATE, SAMUEL, 

ORNE, RICH'D E. TURLEY, THOMAS J. 

OWEN, MILES, WALKER. SAMUEL P. 

PENN, JAMES, WILLIAMS, JOSIAH D. 

PATTISON, GEORGK, WILLIAMSON, JAMES M. 

PARK, DAVID, WILLIAMS, JOSEPH R. 
PARKER, O. B. • WALKER. HENRY C. 

RUFFIN, AVILLIAM, ,- WATKLNS, E. F. 

RHODES, VERNON, WILKERSON, T. W. 

SMITH, GEORGE W. WHIPPLE, ANSON. 
STEWART, E. P. 
SMITH, P. W. 

At the first meeting of these stockholders, Sept. 1 1 , 
1852, Dr. A. P. Merrill, of whom this volume speaks in 
another place, was Chairman, and E. P. Stewart Secre- 
tary. Messrs. A. P. Merrill. J. W. Fowler, J. M. Wil- 
liamson, Wm. Riiffin, and D. M, Leatherman were 
authorized to purchase land to be used as a Cemetery. 
These gentlemen reported, Sept. 25th, 1852, that they 
had bought forty acres, lying between the old Fort 
Pickering and LaGrange Railway and Walker Avenue. 

The permanent organization of the dissociation was 
made October 9th, 1852. and the following named gen- 
tlemen were elected Officers and Managers : Davidson 
M. Leatherman, President; John W. Fowler, Treasurer ; 
James M. Williamson, Secretary; and D. M. Leather- 
man, J. W. Fowler. J. M. Williamson. Wilie B. Miller 
and William Ruffin, Managers. 

The following named gentlemen have filled the posi- 
tions defined below since 1852 : 

Pjresi dents: 

D. M. LEATHERMAN, Elected October 9, 1852. 

E. P. STEWART, Elected ]\[arch 19, 1855. 
JOSEPH LENOW, Elected February 10, 1859. 



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S K c R i-:t a r I !■: s a m > T r !•: a s u r y. r s : 

,I()IIN AV. FOWLER, JOSEPH LENOW, 

J. M. WILLIAMSON, W. E. MILTON, 

S. O. r.ALLAllD, WAI. UUFFIN, Jr., 

JOHN II. LENOW. 

S IM ' I-: la N T !■: x i > e n ts : 

JAMES STEWAliT, THOMAS STEWART, 

JTRGEN JESSIN, CHARLES HAMILTON, 

SAMUEL W. PHILLIPS. 

Manaciers : 

D. M. LEATHEPvMAN, J. C. GRIFFING, 
J. W. FOWLER, JOHN SHELBY, 
J. M. WILLIAMSON, JOSEPH LENOW, 
W. B. MTLLEPv, W. B. HAMLIN, 
WM. EUFFIN, F. W. SMITH, 

E. P. STEWAPvT, J. D. EUFFIN, 
THOMAS H. ALLEN, A. N. EDMONDS, 

J. D. WILLIAMS. 



Act of Incorporation. 



An Act to Incorporate Elniwood Cemetery, near Memphis. 

( Passed February 13th, 1S54. ) 



Section i. Be it enacted by the General Assembly 
of the State of Tennessee. That Davidson M. Leather- 
man, James M. Williamson, John W. Fowler, Wilie B. 
Miller, William Ruffin, and such other persons as have 
subscribed, or may subscribe, a certain indenture of date 
the 14th of December, 1852, defining the objects of this 
association, as stockholders of same, which said inden- 
ture has been duly registered in the Register's office of 
Shelby county, and State of Tennessee, in Book No. 
13, pages 109, no, III, etc., on the 15th of February, 
1853, or such other persons as may be hereafter admit- 
ted as stockholders, in pursuance of the by-laws of this 
association, be, and they are hereby made, a body poli- 
tic and corporate in law, under the name and style of 
"The Elmwood Cemetery," and by that name shall be 
able and capable in law to have and use a common seal ; 
to sue and be sued ; plead and be impleaded, and to do 
all such other things as are incident to incorporations. 

Sec. 2. The capital stock of said corporation shall 
be divided into shares of five hundred dollars each, and 



Act of Incorporation. 1 7 



shall be deemed personal property, and shall be transfer- 
able on the books of the corporation in such manner as 
said corporation shall by its laws direct. 

Sec. 3. The five persons named above shall be man- 
agers of the said Elmwood Cemetery, and shall have 
power to lay out and ornament the grounds, to dispose 
of and arrange burial lots, to appoint suitable officers 
and agents, and fix their compensations and duties, to 
make such rules and regulations from time to time for 
the government of lot-holders and visitors of the Cem- 
etery, as they may deem necessary ; and shall be charged 
with the general care and management of the property and 
grounds of the company ; and by, and with the consent 
of a majority of the stockholders present at any general 
meeting of the same, make such By-Laws, Rules and 
Regulations relative to the duty and election of Mana- 
o-ers and Directors, and the general government of the 
affairs of the corporation, as may be deemed expedient. 

Sec. 4. Be it enacted, That said corporation shall 
and may take and hold real estate, and may sell and 
dispose of the same, to be used exclusively as a Cem- 
etery, or a place for the burial of the dead, and such 
personal estate, and no more, as may be necessary for 
the purposes of this incorporation ; and the lots and 
plat, when conveyed to individual proprietors for the 
purposes aforesaid, shall be exempt from assessment or 
taxation, and not liable to be sold on execution, or to be 
applied to the payment of debts by assignment under 
insolvent laws. 

Sec. 5. An annual meeting of said corporation shall 
be held at such time and place as the By-Laws shall 
direct. The Managers or Directory shall make report 



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to the corporation, at each annual meeting-, of their 
doings, and of the management and condition of the 
corporation. 

Sec. 6. No roads or tracks shall hereafter be opened 
through the land of said corporation, except by and with 
the consent of the corporation. 

Sec. 7. The said corporation may take and hold any 
grant, donation or bequest of property, upon trust, to 
apply the same, or the income thereof, under the order 
of the Board of Managers, for the improvement or em- 
bellishment of the said Cemetery, or any lot or structure 
or ornament thereon, consistent with the design and 
purposes of this Act, and according to the terms of such 
grant, donation or bequest. 

William H. Wisener, 
Speaker of the House of Representatives. 

Edwin Polk, 

Speaker of the Senate.- 




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Amended Charter. 



JULY 7th, 1873. 



THRKE-FOTJRTHS OF THE STOCKHOLDERS AUTHORIZED TO TRANSFER CONTROL. 
OF THE CEMETERY TO THE LOT OWNERS. 

Section i . It shall be lawful for the holders of shares 
of stock in Elmwood Cemetery, in Shelby county, near 
the city of Memphis, to surrender and extinguish their 
stock in such manner as the Board of Managers have or 
may prescribe ; and, upon three-fourths of the stock being 
so surrendered and extinguished, all persons who are, 
or shall hereafter become, proprietors of burial lots in 
said Cemetery, conveyed to them by the corporation, 
shall be and become members of the corporation. 

NINE TRUSTEES SUPPLANT, AND ARE SL^BSTITUTED FOR, THE HOARD OF 

MANAGERS. 

Sec. 2. Upon three-fourths of the stock being so 
surrendered and extinguished, the control and manage- 
ment of the corporation, its estate, property and affairs 
shall pass and be transferred from the Board of Mana- 
gers elected by the stockholders, as the corporate affairs 



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liave heretofore been conducted, to a Board of Nine 
Trustees, to be selected as hereinafter provided, 

MODE OF OUOANIZATION, AND NAMES AND POWERS AND QUALIFICATIONS OF 
TRUSTEES, AND OF VOTERS IN THEIR ELECTION. 

Sec. 3. The five persons now constituting the Board 
of Managers, to-wit : Joseph Lenow, James M. Wil- 
hamson, WiHe B. Miller, Josiah D. Williams and A. N. 
Edmonds, together with Charles Kortrecht, William B. 
Hamlin, James T. Leath and Charles W. Coyer, all 
being present lot-owners in the Cemetery, shall be and 
constitute the first Board of Trustees, and take the 
charge and administration of the business, property and 
affairs of the corporation. They shall elect one of their 
own number President of the Board of Trustees, and 
such other officers and committees as the business of the 
corporation or the By-Laws may require. They shall 
also organize themselves — by lot or otherwise, as they 
may determine — into three equal classes, three in each 
class. The first class so organized shall go out of office, 
and their successors be elected, on the first Monday of 
March, 1876; the second class the first Monday of 
March, 1878, and the third class the first Monday of 
March, 1880 ; and there shall be an election on the first 
Monday in March, 1876, and thenceforward every two 
years, to elect three members of the Board of Trustees, 
all for the period of six years, in the place of those 
whose terms will then expire ; but those whose terms 
expire will hold over until their successors are elected, and 
will always be eligible for a re-election, if owners of 
burial lots in the Cemetery, each containing not less 
than three hundred surface square feet of ground ; and 
no person will be eligible at any time for the office of 
Trustee unless he is the owner of a burial lot in the 



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Cemetery of not less than three hundred square feet, 
surface measure. 

ELKCTIONS now HELD AND QUALIFICATIONS OK VOTKKS. 

Sec. 4. Notice of the time and place of all elections 
of Trustees shall be given in one or more Memphis city 
papers, for at least ten days before the election. The 
election of Trustees shall be by ballot, and every owner, 
in his own or her own right of a burial lot in the Cem- 
etery, of not less than three hundred surface square feet, 
shall be entitled to one vote, and should several persons 
jointly ovv'n one such lot, they may designate, by proxy, 
one of their number, or any third person, to cast the 
vote for the ownership of such lot. 

now RECALCITRANT STOCK HOLT) KRS MAY B K MANAGED BY LOT-OWN EliS. 

Should it happen, after the affairs of the corporation 
have passed into the control of the Board of Trustees, 
that any owner or owners of stock in the corporation, 
as it now exists, should refuse to surrender his or her 
stock to be extinguished, on the terms offered by the 
Board of Managers, he or they will be entitled, in the 
election of Trustees, to cast one-fiftieth part of the bal- 
lots or votes for each share of stock so outstanding, so 
long as such stock shall be and remain outstanding, not 
surrendered nor extinguished, and at any future time he 
or they may surrender his or their stock to be extin- 
guished on the same terms, and at the same price paid 
to those whose stock is now or first surrendered. 

HOW TRUSTEES ARE ELECTED AND VACANCIES IN THE BOARD riLLKD. 

Sec. 5. Vacancies in the Board of Trustees, occurring 
by death, removal, or otherwise, shall be filled by the 
Board for the unexpired term; and if, at any regular 



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election for Trustees, at least one-third in number of 
those entitled to vote shall not vote in person or by 
proxy, then the election shall be held to have failed, and 
the Trustees to be elected shall be elected or chosen b)- 
those holding over, or a majority of them, and in all 
cases Trustees shall hold over until their successors are 
elected, and consent to serve or accept the office. If for 
any reason an election is not held at the time designated 
by the Amended Charter, the Board of Trustees may 
appoint another day for such election, when the required 
notice having been given, the election will have the same 
force and effect as if held at the time designated hereby. 

OLD HY LAWS AND CHARTER, NOT INCONSISTENT WITH THIS, REMAIN IN 

FORCE. 

Sec. 6. The present Charter and By-Laws of Elm- 
wood Cemetery, not inconsistent with this Amended 
Charter, will remain in force until rejected or amended, 
but two-thirds of the Board of Trustees may amend or 
repeal the By-Laws, or adopt new ones at pleasure. 

A QUORUM. 

Sec. 7. Five Trustees will constitute a quorum lor 
the transaction of business. 

tERMS OF OFFICE AND ELIOIIULITY. 

"Sec. 8. The terms of office of the President and 
other officers of the Board of Trustees, created hereby, 
shall be the same as the Board electing them, the first 
President holding until the election of three new Trus- 
tees In March, 1876, and after that the terms shall be 
regularly for two years, and until each new election of 
three Trustees ; and officers will always hold over until 
their successors are elected and qualified, and all the 



A7nended CJiartei\ 



officers will be eligible for re-election. Nothing in this 
section shall prevent or interfere with the right of the 
Board of Trustees to regulate the employment and dis- 
charge of servants and employes, by By-Laws or other- 
•wise, as they think best. 

PURCHASE AXD SALE OF MORRIS CEMETERY CONFIRMED. 

Sec. 9. The sale of the property in the city of Mem- 
phis, heretofore known as Morris Cemetery, and now 
held in trust by Joseph Lenow for the benefit of Elm- 
wood Cemetery, to raise the means to purchase and 
extinguish the stock in Elmwood Cemetery, is hereby 
ratified and approved, and the Board of Managers or 
Trustees of the corporation, whichever may be acting 
at the time of making the conveyance thereof, is hereby 
authorized and empowered to bind the corporation, — 
Elmwood Cemetery, — by all such reasonable covenants 
and conditions as are needful to make an advantageous 
.sale. 

■WHOLE INCOME DEVOTED TO BEAUTIFYING ELMWOOD. 

Sec. 10. All the assets and property of said Elm- 
wood Cemetery, over the amount necessary to purchase 
.and extinguish the stock in the corporation, and all pro- 
ceeds of the future sales of burial lots, and other means 
which the corporation may at any time be owner of, over 
what is needful to pay the debts of the Cemetery, proper 
salaries of officers, agents, and pay employes, shall be 
devoted to repairs, improvement and adornment of the 
Cemetery, under the direction and control of the Board 
•of Trustees, and to procuring additional grounds, if the 
Board of Trustees shall at any time deem it desirable to 
enlarge the Cemetery, and no private profits shall be 
jnade by lot-owners or other corporators therefrom. 



24 Elmzvood Cemetery. 



DONATIONS AND LEGACIES AUTHORIZED TO HE RECEIVED, AND A PERPETUAL 

FUND CREATED. 

Sec. II. The Board of Trustees may, by By-Laws, 
or other Rules and Regulations, provide for receiving 
donations, gifts, or legacies in trust, the principal or 
income to be perpetually devoted to the adornment and 
improvement of the Cemetery, or such parts of it, or 
objects in it, as the donors may direct, or to the enlarge- 
ment of the grounds ; and all such donations, gifts or 
legacies, which the Board of Trustees may accept, shall 
be applied and used as directed by the donors at the time 
of making the same, not being inconsistent with the 
Rules, Regulations and By-Laws of the Cemetery. The 
Board of Trustees may also provide a perpetual fund by 
investing funds, the proceeds of sales of burial lots, or 
other income, in permanent and safe securities, and the 
income only to be used in paying the expenses and 
keeping up the improvements, repairs and adornments- 
of the Cemetery. 

SUPREME POWER OF TRUt^TEES OVER LOTS. 

Sec. 12. The Board of Trustees of said Elm wood- 
Cemetery shall have full power to regulate and control 
the growth, the removal and management of forest trees, 
and other objects of ornament and adornment of the 
Cemetery, on the lots sold, as well as those not sold, and 
lot-owners shall have no rieht to cut or remove forest or 
other trees from their respective lots without the consent 
of the Board of Trustees of the Cemetery. The Board 
of Trustees shall have full power, by By-laws, as by other 
rules and regulations, to control the growth and removal 
of forest trees and other adornments of the Cemetery 
on lots sold, as well as elsewhere, with a view to the 
beauty and adornment of the whole Cemetery. 



Amended Charter, 2 cr. 



SANCTION OF THE CIIANCKRY COURT. 



All of which is finally ordered and decreed, and the 
foregoing twelve sections are hereby declared and de- 
creed to be in full force as a part of the Charter of said 
Elmwood Cemetery, and all the provisions of the original 
Charter, in conflict or inconsistent therewith, are hereby- 
repealed, annulled and rescinded. 



STATE OF TENNESSEE 

Shelbv County. 



'\ss. 



I, Edmund A. Cole, Clerk and Master of the First 
Chancery Court of Shelby County, do hereby certify- 
that the foregoing comprises a full, true and perfect 
transcript of a decree had in a certain cause lately- 
pending herein, wdierein Joseph Lenow and others are 
petitioners ex parte, as the same appears of record and 
on file in my office. 

In Witness whereof, I hereunto set my hand, and afifix 
the seal of said Court, at office, in the city of Memphis., 
this nth day of July, 1873. 

Edmund A. Cole, Clerk and Master. 
By R. J. Black, D. C. and M. 



ACT OF THE LEGISLATURE OF TEiNNESSEE 



EXEMPTINGJ- 



The Properly of EInwood Association Trom Taxation. 



Be a furtJier enacted, That all lots and grounds held 
and owned by the Elmwood Cemetery, at Memphis, and 
the lots and ei'ounds of individuals or societies therein, 
and all implements or other property belonging to said 
Cemetery ; also, donations made to adorn, beautify, or 
keep the same in repair, or the private lots therein, shall 
be exempt from taxation or assessment, either State or 
local. 

Passed February 15th, 1869. 

F. S. Richards, Speaker of Senate. 
P. P. C. Nelson, Speaker of House. 



AN ACT TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT FOR THE PKOTECTION OF 
CEMETERIES IN THE STATE OF TENNESSEE. 

Section i . Be it enacted by the Genei'al Assembly of 
Ihe State of Tennessee, That it shall be unlawful for any 
person to discharge any firearms, unless authorized to 
*do so by the managers, trustees, or superintendent, upon, 



Act for the Protection of Cemeteries. 2j 

■or over the grounds of any cemetery, now established, 
■or that may hereafter be established, in this State, or 
within one hundred yards of such cemetery, unless it be 
upon his own land, and not then during the passage of 
any funeral procession to or from said cemetery. 

Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, That no person shall 
willfully disturb or disquiet any cemetery in the State by 
noise, profane discourse, rude or indecent behavior, or 
any other act, at. on, or within one hundred yards of any 
■cemetery. 

Sec. 3. Be it firther enacted, That no person shall 
willfully destroy, mutilate, deface, injure, or remove any 
tomb, monument, or grave-stone, or other structure 
placed in any cemetery in the State, or any fence, rail- 
ing, or other work for the protection or ornament of any 
cemetery, or any cemetery lot within a cemetery, nor 
shall willfully destroy, cut, break, or injure any tree, 
shrub or plant within the limits of any cemetery in this 
.State. 

Sec. 4. Be it further enacted, That all managers or 
trustees of any cemetery in this State shall have full 
power to adopt and establish all rules and regulations 
necessary for the good government, order and discipline 
•of the cemetery under their charge and keeping ; Pro- 
mded, No such rule or regulation shall be in conflict with 
any law of this State. Such rules and regulations shall 
be posted in a conspicuous place at each entrance of said 
■cemetery. It shall be the duty of the day or night 
watchman appointed by the managers and trustees of 
said cemetery, to notify all offenders who violate any of 
the rules at, in, or within one hundred yards of said 



28 Elmwood Cemetery. 



cemetery, and if they will not cease from said violation, 
to arrest them as by authority conferred in section 5 of 
this Act. 

Sec. 5. Be it fii7'ther e7Lacted, That it shall be lawful 
for the managers or trustees of any cemetery in this 
State to appoint, at their own expense, as many day and 
night watchmen of their grounds as they may deem 
expedient ; and such w^atchmen, and also all of their 
superintendents, gardeners, agents and gate-keepers 
stationed on said grounds, are hereby authorized to take 
and subscribe, before any mayor or magistrate of the 
town or county where such cemetery is situated, an oath 
of office similar to the oath required by law of constables, 
and upon the taking of such oath, such watchmen, 
superintendents, gardeners, agents and gate-keepers 
shall have, exercise and possess all the powers of police 
officers within said cemetery, and within one hundred 
yards of said cemetery grounds, and shall have power 
to arrest all persons engaged in violating any of the 
sections of this Act ; and shall have full power to bring 
such persons so offending before any court or magistrate 
of competent jurisdiction, to be dealt with according to 
law. i\ll persons so appointed shall wear a star or 
medal to designate their authority as watchmen. 

Sec. 6. Be it further enacted. That in case any 
person shall offend or violate any or either of the 
sections aforesaid, he shall be deemed guilty of a mis- 
demeanor, and shall, upon conviction thereof, before any 
court or magistrate of competent jurisdiction, be fined 
in any sum not exceeding one hundred dollars, and such 
offender shall also be liable in an action of trespass in 
the name of said managers or trustees, to pay all such 



Act for the Protection of Cemeteries. 29 



damages as have been occasioned by his or her unlawful 
act or acts, which money when recovered shall be applied 
by said managers or trustees to the reparation of the 
-property injured or destroyed. 

Sec. 7. Be it ftrtJier enacted. That all Acts hereto- 
fore passed in conflict w'ith this Act are hereby repealed. 

Sec. 8. i?^ zV /i^r//z^r ^;/«<fW, That the public welfare 
requiring it, this Act shall take effect and be in full force 
from and after the passage thereof. 

Passed March 21, 1873. 

W. S. McGaugiiev, Speaker of House. 
A. T. Lacev, Speaker of Senate. 

Approved March 24, 1873. 

J(»ii.\ C. Brown, Governor. 

I certify that the foregoing is a true copy of an Act of 
the General Assembly, the original of which is now on 
^le in my office. This March 28, 1873. 

Chas. N. Giisp.s. Secretary of State. 



BY-LAWS 



OF 



ELMWOOD CEMETERY. 



Section i. A Board of Managers, consisting of five, 
shall be elected annually by ballot, at a general meetings 
of the stockholders, to be held on first Monday of March, 
in each year, and as often as any vacancy may occur in 
the Board of Managers, said vacancy shall be filled by 
the Board at any stated or called meeting. 

Sec. 2. The Board of Managers, when elected, shall 
appoint, of their number, a President, and also elect a 
Secretary and Treasurer. 

Sec. 3. The President shall preside at all the meet- 
ings of the Board of Managers, and if he be absent, the 
Board shall elect a chairman, who shall preside at the 
meeting for which he shall be appointed. The presiding 
officer, in case of an equal division of the Board, shall 
have a casting vote. 



By-Laws. 3 1 

Sec. 4. The Treasurer shall act as Secretary, and 
keep minutes of the proceedings of the Board of Man- 
agers. 

Sec. 5. The Treasurer shall have custody of the seal 
of the Corporation ; of its funds, vouchers, books of 
account, papers, documents and effects. It shall be his 
duty to collect and receive all the money, and to deposit, 
pay, disburse, and otherwise appropriate its funds, as 
directed or authorized by the Board of Managers. Also, 
to render annually an account of his receipts and 
expenditures, and to furnish a general statement of the 
affairs of the Company ; which accounts and statements 
shall be rendered at the stated or any special meeting of 
the Board of Managers next preceding the annual meet- 
ing; which shall be examined, audited and reported on 
by a committee appointed by the Board of Managers, 

Sec. 6. All funds of the Corporation shall be depos- 
ited to the credit of the Company, in such bank as shall 
be designated by the President, and the same shall be 
drawai out only by checks of the Treasurer, counter- 
signed by the President or Chairman of the Board. 

Sec. 7. The President shall be charged with the gen- 
eral care and management of the property and grounds 
of the Company, and shall have power to make contracts 
for the improvement and embellishment of the said 
grounds, and arrangements for the proper regulation 
thereof, and may employ all necessary superintendents 
and agents for that purpose, under and subject to such 
directions, general and special, as the Board of Man- 
agers may, from time to time, prescribe. 

Sec. 8. If no election should be rnade of Managers 
on the first Monday of March, at the stated annual 



Elmivood Cemetery, 



meetino-of the stockholders, the several incumbents then 
in office shall continue to exercise the duties and functions 
of their respective offices until an election takes place. 

Sec. 9. All agents and servants appointed by the 
Board of Managers or the President, shall hold their 
offices at the pleasure of the Board. 

Sec. 10. The Board of Managers shall have stated 
meetings on the second Monday of March, June, Sep- 
tember and December, in each and every year. 

Sec. II. Special meetings of the Board may be 
called by the President, or in case of his absence or 
inability, by any member of the Board ; and it shall be 
his duty to call such special meetings, upon the written 
requisition of any two Managers. It shall be the duty 
of the Treasurer to give due notice, in writing, of every 
meeting, and, in regard to annual meetings of the Cor- 
poration, by publishing such notice thereof, as may be 
deemed sufficient, in two of the city papers. 

Sec. 12. All burial lots are to be designated, sur- 
veyed, sold and conveyed by the President, under the 
direction of the Board of Managers ; and no more than 
four lots shall be sold or conveyed to any one person or 
body, without the unanimous consent of the Board of 
Managers. 

Sec. 13. All instruments under seal of the Corpo- 
ration, shall be signed by the President and counter- 
signed by the Treasurer. 

Sec. 14. The Board of Managers shall, from time to 
time, make such ordinances and regulations touching 
interments, the erection of monuments, decoration of the 
grounds, and touching the general police of the Cem- 
>etery, as they may deem expedient. 



ilMTlOI OF II 



ELECTION OF CAPTAIN LENOW AS PRESIDENT, AND HIS 
ADDRESS TO THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES. 



As stated in another place, a Board of Trustees has 
been substituted for the Board of Managers, elective by 
the lot-owners of Elmwood. In other words, the present 
lot-owners, and those who may hereafter become lot- 
owners, are the proprietors of the Cemetery — owning- 
all its grounds, sold and unsold, and will hereafter elect 
Trustees to managfe and care for it. This chancre has 
been brought about by Captain Joseph Lenow's persist- 
ent efforts, and surely every one interested in the 
Cemetery will confess that the public owes him a debt 
of lasting gratitude. 

'The Board of Trustees selected under the Charter, 
consisting of Joseph Lenow, James M. Williamson, 
Wilie B. Miller, J. D. Williams, A. N. Edmonds, C. 
Kortrecht, C. W. Coyer, James T. Leath and W. B. 
Hamlin, met on December ist, 1S73, at the office of the 



Elmwood Cemetery, 



Company, 36 Union street, and perfected their organi- 
zation ; on which occasion Joseph Lenow was elected 
President, John H. Lenow, Secretary and Treasurer, 
and Samuel W. Phillips, Superintendent, positions which 
they had long filled under the old management. 



ADDRESS OF CAPTAIN LENOW. 



Captain Lenow, in accepting the position of President 
of the new organization, spoke as follows : 

Gentlemen — I need hardly tell you how grateful I am 
for this reassertion of undiminished confidence in my 
fidelity to the trust I have administered through the past 
fifteen years. To be elected under this new organi- 
zation, when Trustees supplant the Board of Managers, 
is especially gratifying. I accept the high and honorable 
trust, and can only say that I will discharge my duties 
faithfully. I need hardly tell you, after so many years 
spent in perfecting the attractiveness of our City of the 
Dead, that the very place is endeared to me. I love its 
roses and evergreens, its speechless but eloquent monu- 
ments, its silent roadways, and its bright blossoms of 
spring, and pale shadows of autumn and winter. May 
I not, while congratulating you on the progressive 
attractiveness of Elmwood, also express my sincere 
satisfaction because of the accomplishment of this 
change, by which the lot-owners are substituted as 
proprietors for the original stock company? The stock- 
holders, in surrendering their stock, have manifested a 



Reorganization. 35 



^degree of generosity to the public which commands 
popular approval and gratitude. The friends of the 
•dead are now assured that no speculative purpose or 
selfish aim of the living can influence the management 
of the affairs of the Cemetery. 

It is my purpose, as in former years, to devote almost 
my entire time to the adornment of Elmwood and to the 
perfection of its charms. Though much has been 
accomplished, infinitely more remains to be done ; and 
rest assured that no effort of mine will be spared to 
make that hallowed spot as beautiful and attractive as 
they would have it who imagine that the loved and lost, 
resting there, are well pleased that the living do not 
forget the dead. 



CLASSIFICATION OF TRUSTEES. 



First Class — Time expires first Monday in March, 
1876: 

CHAKLES W. GOYEK, 
JAMES T. LEATH, 
WM. B. HAMLIN. 

Second Class — Time expires first Monday in March, 
1878: 

CHAKLES KOETRECHT, 
ALEXANDER N. EDMONDS, 
JOSIAH D. WILLIAMS. 

Third Class — Time expires first Monday in March, 
1880: 

"WILIE B. MILLER, 
JAMES M. WILLIAMSON, 
JOSEPH LENOW. 



IlEGULA.TIO]^^S 

IN REGARD TO INTERMENTS AND FUNERALS. 



1 . Whenever a burial is to be made, notice thereof 
must be given at the office of the Secretary before the 
time set for taking out the permits by the Messenger^ 
Four hours are required to prepare graves before inter- 
ments can take place, from the time the permit is 
received by the Superintendent at the Cemetery. 

The persons applying for the permit must be able to 
give the following particulars : Name of deceased, age, 
color, date of death, date and hour of interment, disease, 
in whose lot interred, location of grave, name of under- 
taker, outside size of coffin or box. 

The same information will be required, and also a 
permit from the Secretary, when remains are to be 
interred which have been removed from other burial 
grounds ; and, when a body is to be removed from one 
part of the Cemetery to another part, a permit therefor 
anust be obtained from the Secretary. 

2, Any lot-holder allowing a friend to bury in his lot 
must make application for the privilege, in person, or by 
a written order ; and proprietors shall not allow inter- 
ments to be made in their lots for a remuneration. 

Every lot-holder should have a diagram of his lot on 
the back of his deed, or other convenient place, for 



Interments afid Funerals. 



reference, and mark every interment thereon. This 
method would enable him, in most cases, to point out 
the precise location of each succeeding grave without 
going out to the grounds, and thus prevent mistakes 
occurring from improper description of location; and 
one interment is all that should be made in the same 
grave unless at a great depth, or when actual necessity 
seems to require it. 

3. Owing to the great number of interments in times 
of an epidemic, or unusual mortality, parties are advised 
to apply at the Secretary's office before setting the time 
•of funerals, to ascertain what hour the Sexton can attend 
the same, so as to prevent unnecessary delay and con- 
fusion at the grounds ; applications to be considered 
each in their turn. 

4. All interments will be subject to the following 
'■charges, and must be paid to the Secretary on obtaining 
the permit, but no interment will be allowed in any lot 
until the lot has been paid for : 

Opening, closing and sodding each adult grave, ^ 5 00 
Opening, closing and sodding each child's grave, 3 00 

PUBLIC RECEIVING TOMB. 

For opening Tomb, public or private, to receive 
body, to be afterwards interred in the Cem- 
etery, - - - - - - - ^ 2 00 

For opening Tomb to remove the body, - - 2 00 

For deposit of adult, to be afterwards removed 

from Cemetery, - - - - - -10 00 

For deposit of child under 10 years, to be after- 
wards removed from Cemetery, - - - 5 00 

From April ist to November ist, bodies must be 
^removed in one week ; and from November ist to April 



38 Elmwood Cemetery, 



I St, within three weeks. No removals from Tomb oik 
Sundays, except in special cases. Persons dying from 
contagious diseases will not be deposited in the Public 
Receiving Tomb, nor in a private tomb, unless sealed 
up. When a body is to be deposited or removed from. 
Public or Private Receiving Tombs, a permit must first 
be obtained from the Secretary's office, and the charges 
paid. 

The same rule will be applied to Private Vaults as- 
now made for the Public Receiving Tomb, that bodies can 
only remain the same time, unless enclosed in brick- 
work, and thoroughly cemented and made air-tight. 

Undertakers are responsible, and must have bodies 
removed at the expiration of the time during which, 
bodies may remain, under the Rules of the Cemetery, 
in Receiving Tombs, public or private. The officers of 
the Cemetery look to undertakers, and not to the family 
or friends of the deceased, for the execution of this- 
Regulation. 



Rights of Sepulture given Colored People. 



Prior to the enactment of social equality laws by the- 
Federal Congress, even in 1857, the managers and 
stockholders of Elmwood assented to the interment of 
colored people within the Cemetery. A "section" was 
set apart for use and occupation by colored people exclu- 
sively ; and It was further declared, by a special resolution 
of the managers, that colored people should not be burled, 
in any other portion, or private lot, of the Cemetery.. 



TOLLING THE BELL. 



1. The bell is tolled as each funeral procession enters 
the gateway of the Cemetery. 

2. When the Superintendent is absent from his office^ 
three taps of the bell will summon him. 



For the accommodation of individuals who wish to 
make interments, a messenger will be sent out to the 
Cemetery daily, when required, at lo a. m., and 4 p. m., 
during the week days, and on Sundays at 10 a. m. only. 
At all other times, parties applying must furnish their 



OFFICE HOLTRS. 



Office hours from 8 to 10 a. m., and 2 to 4 p. m. daily, 
Sundays excepted. On Sundays, office will be open 
from 9 to 10 a. m. only. 

Office in Lenow Block, No. 36 Union Street. 

In case of emergency, when a permit is needed when 
the office is closed, the Secretary may generally be found 
by calling at his residence. 



40 Elmivood Cemetery. 



RULES GOVEKNING UNDERTAKERS AND OTHERS. 



Undertakers must so arrange the time for funerals as ] 
to arrive before sunset, in order to be out of the grounds 
before dark, as damage has been done by being late. 
Carriage-drivers, and others employed at funerals, must | 
always keep on the drives, and remain near their ■ 
respective vehicles during the performance of funeral 
ceremonies, and otherwise conduct themselves properly 
and in accordance with the Regfulations of the institution. 
No music or firing of volleys will be allowed within the I 
grounds, except in case of the burial of a military or 
naval officer. The Police of the Cemetery are instructed 
to arrest any person offending against the above, or any i 
Rule or Recrulation of the Board. ; 



Purchase of Lots. Prices, Etc. 



Persons desiring to purchase a lot, should first call at 
the office of the Secretary, and obtain a ticket of admis- 
sion to the grounds. Upon his or her arrival there the 
Superintendent, whose office is at the north gate, will 
show the various lots ready for sale ; and, if one be 
selected, the party will receive a ticket giving the num- 
ber, section, size and price of the lot. The purchaser 
should then return immediately to the office and pay for 
the same, after which an order for interment thereon 
may at any time be given. 



Purchase and Price of Lois. 41 

The Board of Trustees do not consider it expedient 
to sell any lot before the same shall have been laid off, 
surveyed and recorded. A lot will be exchanged for 
another by any person desiring it, but not for one of less 
value. But when such exchange is made the original 
deed must be surrendered by proper assignment or by a 
re-conveyance, if considered necessary, before the 
arrangement is effected. Lots are not transferable 
unless permission is obtained from the Board, and if 
granted, the proper transfer must be made on the books. 

The size and areas of individual burial lots in Elm- 
wood, range from ninety-six to twelve hundred square 
feet. 

PRICE OF LOTS. 

Lots are sold at the following prices per square foot : 
On Circles, - - - - 75 cents. 

First-class ground, - - 50 cents. 

.Second-class ground, - - -^^l cents. 

Third-class ground, - - 25 cents. 

Lots may be selected to be held one year, unless 
sooner used, but, in all cases, fhey have to be paid for 
before burying o?i them. 

SINGLE GRAVES. 

When a single grave only is wanted, the following 
prices are charged, which cover the entire expense for 
the ground, and opening, closing and sodding the grave : 

Adult, white, first-class ground, - - ^15 00 
Child, " .* w " _ _ . _ 10 00 

Adult, colored, second-class ground, 12 00 

Child, " " " <' - - 8 00 

The owners of single graves, who 'purchase family 
burial lots, can have bodies removed from such graves 



42 



Elmwood Cemetery. 



and re-interred in the lot bought, without further charge 
than the surrender of the grave vacated to the Cem- 
etery Association. 



BRICK GRAVES. 



Brick grave in ground, aduh. 
Brick grave in ground, child, 



540 00 
30 00 



A permit for a brick grave should reach the Super- 
intendent full twenty-four hours before the time of 
interment. 



PRICES OF FOUNDATIONS TO HEADSTONES 
AND MONUMENTS. 

HEADSTONES. 

The base, two feet by one or under, 
" " of larger dimensions, 

MONUMENTS. 

The base, two feet square or under, 

** " two feet to two feet six inches, 

" " two feet six inches to three feet, - 

" " three feet to three feet six inches, - 

" " three feet six inches to four feet, - 

" " four feet to four feet six inches, 

•' " four feet six inches to five feet, - 

" " five feet to five feet six inches, 

" " five feet six inches to six feet, 

'* " six feet to six feet six inches, - 

" " six feet six inches to seven feet, - 



$2 


50 


5 


00 


5 


00 


7 


00 


10 


GO 


13 


00 


17 


GO 


22 


GQ 


30 


GO 


Z1 


50 


45 


00 


55 


GO 


70 


GOv 



Rules Concerning Improvements on Lots. 



The Board of Trustees have no wish to interfere with 
the taste of individuals in regard to the style of their 
improvements, but in justice to the interests of the insti- 
tution, they reserve to themselves the right given them 
by law of preventing or removing any structure or object 
which they shall consider injurious to the general good 
appearance of the grounds, and particularly to adjoining 
lots. 

1. In order to produce a natural and pleasing surface 
over the entire ground, the grade of all lots will be deter- 
mined by the Trustees of the Corporation. 

2. Persons wishinof foundations made must leave their 
orders with the Secretary a reasonable time, according 
to the size of the foundation, before the erection of the 
monument, and pay for the same at the time. 

3. No stone of any kind is allowed to be put up 
without a proper foundation, which in all cases is made 
exclusively by the Association, under the supervision of 
the Superintendent. 

4. Head-stones are not allowed to be set tliat mea- 
sure less than three inches thick, or more than three feet 
and a half high from the surface of the ground. Excep- 
tions can only be granted on extra fine works of art, and 
by special permission from the Board, in particular cases. 



44 Elniwood Cemetery. 



Stones set without sockets must be set firmly in the 
ground, one and a half feet deep, and built in brick work 
to the surface. 

5. The keeper of the gate is directed not to permit 
monuments or other buildino- material to enter the 
grounds, unless accompanied by workmen for the pur- 
pose of erecting the same on their proper places. 

6. Heavy laden teams will not be allowed to enter 
the grounds in wet weather. 

7. Persons engraofed in erectinor monuments or other 
structures, are prohibited from attaching ropes to trees 
and shrubs, and from scattering their material over ad- 
joining lots, or leaving the same on the grounds any 
longer than is absolutely necessary ; and in all cases they 
must conduct themselves in accordance with the Re^ula- 
tions of the Board, and must be subject to the control 
and direction of the agents of the Institution ; and any 
workman failing to conform to this Regulation, will not 
be permitted afterwards to work on the grounds. 

8. Vaults or tombs are not recommended, but will 
be permitted, provided a design of the same is submitted 
to the Board, and the work done in the most substantial 
and safe manner. The materials must be of stone and 
cement only. 

9. Iron or wood enclosures, and wood head and foot 
boards of any description whatsoever are considered 
useless incumbrances, and are therefore prohibited. 

Stone posts, on which the numbers of lots are inscribed 
distinguish the several lots on the Circles of the Ceme- 
tery, and after a time stone will be used exclusively for 
.this purpose everywhere. 



CERTIFICATE OF OWNERSHIP. 



ELM'WOOD CEMETERY 

OS" THE 

City of Memphis, Tenn. 



T/ie Proprietors of Elm wood Cemetery hereby Cer- 
tify, That. of the owner of Lot 

No in Section, on the Plat of said 

Cemetery Grounds, in the County of Shelby, and State 

of Tennessee, containing square feet, for which 

said paid the sum of. Vj^Dollars, 

and the said heirs and assigns, are entitled 

to the use of said Lot, in fee simple, for the purpose of 
Sepulture alone, subject to the provisions of the Charter 
passed by the Legislature of Tennessee, on the 13th 
day of Feb., 1854, entitled "■An Act to Incorporate Elm- 
wood Cemetery, near Memphis'' 

In Testimony Whereof, The said Proprietors of Elmwood 
Cemetery have caused these Presents to be signed by their 
President, and countersigned by their Secretary and Trea- 
surer, and their Corporate Seal to be hereunto affixed, this 
day of in the year of our Lord 18 — 

President. 

.—.Sec. and Treas. 



.46 Elmwood Cemetery. 



FORM OF SECRETARY'S ORDER. 



Undebtakebs are Requibed to Have Funebals Abeive Befobe Sunset. "S« 



-Order issued at J. ELMWOOD CEMETERY, j 

secretary's office, 

Mejiphis, Tenn. , ....18 — 

Superintendent Elmwood Ce7netery : ^ 

Prepare to receive the remains of 

who died 18 of. aged 

..years. Prepare a grave feet. ...in. long, 

feet in. wide, ...in Lot No 

Section, belonging to..... in Public Lot. 

interment.. this day at m. j 

Secretary. \ 

Undertaker. \ 



This Order must be delivered at the OiSce of Superintendent four hours 
.before Interment is to be made. 



RULES AND REGULATIONS 



TO BE OBSERVED BY 



LOT-HOLDERS AND VISITORS. 



1. Tickets must be shown at the gate, and are not 

transferable. 

2. Each lot-owner is entitled to a ticket of admission 

for his or her family. 

3. No children will be admitted unless accompanied by- 

some person responsible for their conduct. 

4. Persons on horseback or in carriages will not be 

allowed to leave the drives, or to pass through 
the grounds at a rate exceeding three miles the 
hour. 

5. Persons with firearms will not be admitted. 

6. Horses must not be left unless fastened at the places 

prepared for that purpose. , 

7. Dogs will not be admitted within the enclosure. 



48 Elmwood Cemetery. 

8. All persons are prohibited from picking any flowers, 

either wild or cultivated, or breaking any tree, 
shrub or plant, or writing upon, defacing, or 
injuring any monument, fence, or any structure 
in or belonging to the Cemetery, or touching any 
object not their own. 

9. No person is permitted to enter the Cemetery 

except through the gates. 

10. Persons with refreshments will not be permitted to 

enter. 

11. Omnibuses will not be permitted to enter the 

grounds. 

12. Persons will not be permitted to disturb the quiet 

or good order of the place. 

13. Intruders on the grounds, after the gates are closed 

at night., will be arrested and prosecuted. 

14. The grounds of Elmwood are hallowed and sacred, 

and no impropriety will be permitted to pass 
unnoticed ; and any violation of Rules will cause 
the arrest of the offender by officers of the law, 
who are never absent from the grounds. 

15. The Gate-keepers are charged to refuse admit- 

tance into the grounds of all improper persons, 
and those who are known to have at any^time 
caused a disturbance, or otherwise transgressed 
the Regulations of the Association. 



Rules Governing Lot-ozv7iers and I isitors. 49 

16. Discharging fire-arms is prohibited in and around 

the Cemetery grounds, to the distance of one 
hundred yards. 

17. The gates are open to the Cemetery from sunrise 

to dark. 

18. Lot-owners, visitors, and all others are subject to 

the Rules and Regulations of the Cemetery in 
everything. 

19. No money shall be paid to the gate-keepers, or 

any person in the employ of the Company, for 
any personal service or attention, outside of the 
regular charges of the Association. 

^^^ All well-disposed persons will confer a favor by 
informing the Superintendent of any breach of the Rules 
that may come under their notice. 



B@°'The laborers' buildings are siluatecl on the extreme western boundary of the 
Cemetery, and front on Robinson avenue. 



\|^g=^ No body will be disinterred in Elmwood, nor 
will bodies ' brought from other Cemeteries or private 
burial grounds be interred in Elmwood Cemetery, be- 
tween the first of April and first of November, of each 
year, unless they have been buried five years. 



50 Elmwood Cemetery. 

ELMWOOD CEMETERY, MEMPHIS, TENN. 
LOT-OWNER'S TICKET, 

To BE Showx at the Gate— (Not Tkansfekabli:.) 

This Ticket Admits and the members 

of h household, with the privilege of introducing 

strangers. All subject to the Rules of the Cemetery. 

By order of the Trustees. 

Sen^etary. 



ELMWOOD CEMETERY, MEMPHIS, TENN. 
SINGLE GRAVE TICKET, 

To BE Shown at the Gate — (Not Transfekable.) 

TJiis Ticket Adjuits subject to th( 

Rules of the Cemetery. 
By order of the Trustees. 

Seci^etary. 

The Gates are Open from Sunrise till Dark. 



Memphis, Tenn., .....". _.i8 — 

Permit to visit Elmwood Cemetery, 

(subject to the Rules of the Cemetery, posted near 
the entrance of each Gate.) 
By order of the Trustees. 

Secretary. 

N. B. — This Permit must be given up at the Gate. 



A PERPETUAL FUND TO KEEP LOTS IN ORDER. 



The Company is authorized by its Charter to receive 
and hold in trust funds to be used in adorning lots 
perpetually, the interest to be sacredly applied to this 
purpose. Persons desiring to have this done will be 
shown the nature of the contract at the Secretary's 
office. This plan is fast becoming a favorite method 
with owners of lots in the principal cemeteries in this 
country, and should be resorted to by all who can spare 
a sum, the interest of which may be sufficient for the 
purpose. " Let us then employ some of our superfluous 
wealth, now often expended in useless luxuries, in 
rendering the place where our beloved friends repose 
attractive, not only for the present, but also for the 
future." 

For work of every kind done by the Company, it is 
intended to charge sufficiently to cover cost and no 
more. 



HOW TO SECUKE TICKETS OF ADMISSION. 

Lot-owners who have not procured tickets of admis- 
sion can get them at the Secretary's office, 2)^ Union 
street. The office hours are from 8 to lo o'clock a. m., 
and from 2 to 4 o'clock p. m., Sundays excepted. On 
Sundays the office will be open from 9 to 10 o'clock 



52 Elmwood Cemetery, 



a. m., only. A messenger will be sent to the Cemetery 
on week days at lo o'clock a. m,, and 4 o'clock p. m.^ 
and on Sundays at 10 o'clock a. m., only. 

HOW TO CARE FOR LOTS AND MONUMENTS. 

As Stated in another place, plans are devised by which 
the Cemetery will be perfected in all its incidents, and 
kept in perfect order for all time, even without the 
co-operation of lot-owners. Those who would adorn 
the ground they have bought, cultivate flowers, have 
monuments cleaned, and special and extra attention 
given to their lots, may contract with the Company by 
the year, and are referred to the Superintendent, whose 
office is at the north entrance of the Cemetery. In 
order to have no misunderstanding, they should be 
particular to specify what work they would have done 
on their lots, and at what cost. The Superintendent 
will then refer them to the Secretary and Treasurer, 
who, on receipt of the money, will order the work done ; 
the Board of Tries tees having resolved to enforce the cash 
system in this as well as in all other transactions of the 
Cemeteiy. They are sustained in its adoption by the 
leadinof cemeteries of the United States. Those who 
prefer to attend to their own lots must obtain permits 
from the Secretary to the Superintendent, and conform 
to all Rules while on the grounds of the Cemetery. 

MODE or CONDUCTING BUSINESS. 

Except the sum of ^2,500, paid annually as a dividend,, 
the whole revenue of the Cemetery has been devoted to 
the payment of current expenses for its embellishment, 
and to the extingfuishment of indebtedness incurred in 
the purchase of land. At the close of each fiscal year, 
the books of the Association have been examined and 



Disposition of Fu7tds. 53 

approved by a Committee of Managers and Stock- 
holders. This task is easily done. All money expended 
is paid on checks drawn on the bank, which, by consent 
of the Directors, was made the depository of the 
Association's funds. The bank book and cash book of 
the Association must always show the same balances. 
Every article bought for the use of the Association is 
paid for in cash, and there are no unpaid accounts. 
Each check is signed both by the Treasurer and Presi- 
dent, and there is a proper voucher, properly numbered, 
like the bank checks, for each item of expenditure. 

All funds received are at once itemized and deposited 
in bank, and the system is conducted without the creation 
■of debts. Laborers and others, constantly employed, 
are paid at the end of each month. In very truth, the 
books of the Association are few and simple, and these 
are always open for inspection by experts and others 
interested in the management or ownership of the 
Cemetery. Each dollar that has become the property 
of the Association has been honestly applied and 
expended in its behalf. The voice of slander has been 
silent, and no whisper has been uttered to lessen the 
brightness of their fame who, through more than twenty 
years, have managed the business affairs of Elmwood 
Cemetery. The story of a blameless corporation stands 
in perfect solitude, its splendor the more wonderful 
because unselfishness, as well as unquestioned honesty, 
marks its every page. It is like the solitary planet that 
peers forth at noonday, amid the gloom of a total 
.-eclipse. 



A CATAIiOaUS OF BOOKS 



USED FOR THE 



TRANSACTION OF THE BUSINESS OF THE CEMETERY. 



Cash Book. 

Alphabetical Lot Book, (duplicate). 

A Daily Burial Record Book. 

Alphabetical Burial Record Book, (duplicate). 

Vault Book. 

A Plat Book for each Section. 

Register of Deeds. 

Time Table Book, to keep laborers' time.- 

Record Book of Minutes. 

Undertakers' Book. 

Perpetual Agreement Record. 



CASH SYSTEM. 



By resolution of the Board of Trustees, any officer 
or employe of the Cemetery giving credit, becomes- 
personally responsible. All business of the Cemetery 
is done for Cash, and no deviation from this rule can or 
will be made. 






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BETHELL. 



ABSTRACT OF CORPORATE RIGHTS. 



The original Charter and Amendments, published in 
another place, direct that the affairs of the Corporation 
shall be managed by a Board of nine Trustees, to be 
chosen by the lot-owners from among their own 
number ; each owner of a plat of land, not less than 
three hundred superficial square feet, to be entitled to a 
vote. To prevent, however, undue advantage being 
taken of the absence of lot-owners at any election, by 
which a few designing men might get control of the 
Institution for selfish purposes, it directs that if one- 
third of the lot-owners shall not in person, or by proxy, 
vote thereat, the Trustees to be chosen shall be elected 
by a majority of the existing Trustees. It directs the 
Trustees to be divided into three equal classes, one class 
in rotation to be elected every two years, for the term 
of six years, with the privilege of re-election indefinitely. 
It authorizes and directs the land acquired by the 
Corporation to be disposed of and used exclusively for 
the burial of the dead. It exempts such land forever 
from assessments and public taxes, and also from liability 
to be sold on execution, or for the payment of debts by 
assignment under any insolvent law ; and prohibits any 
public road, avenue, or street, from being laid out or 
opened through the grounds of the Cemetery. 



56 Elmwood Cemetery 



It requires that the proceeds of all sales of lots shall ' 
be applied to the purchase, preservation, improvement, 1 
and embellishment of the Cemetery, and to the incidental 
expenses thereof, and to no other turfose whatever. 
The Charter further authorizes the Corporation to 
receive, upon trust, any donation or bequest for the 
purpose of improving- or embellishing the Cemetery ] 
generally, or any Cemetery lot, and for the erection, 
preservation, and renewal of any monumental structure 
or enclosure. 



LOCATION OF ELMWOOD. * 



HOW TO REACH THE CEMETERY. 

Elmwood Cemetery, a beautiful woodland tract of 
eighty acres, constituting almost a perfect square, 
between the Memphis and Selma Railway, on its north- 
ern, and Walker avenue on its southern boundary, lies 
two and a half miles southeast of the city of Memphis, 
in Shelby county, Tennessee. 

There are two iron gateways ; one on the northern, 
the other on the southern side of the enclosure. The 

* The Cemetery, of which this volume tells, was so called by accident. Several 
names to desij;nate the place were proposed to be used. Four or five of them were 
written on pieces of pajier, deposited in a hat, and the word Elmwood, suj^gested 
by Captain Charles Church, was tirst di^awn out, and the stockholders were well 
pleased. 



Location and ]\ lap — Receiving Tomb. 57 

latter is at the terminus of the Hernando Street Rail- 
way. Street cars, having the word " Elmwood" painted 
on their sides, reach and leave this southern gate every 
ten minutes. At either gate there is a waiting-room, 
where fires are maintained in inclement weather, that 
visitors may be made comfortable. In order to secure 
conveniences, incident to the extension of the Street 
Railway to the Cemetery, the proprietors of the latter, 
in 1867, subscribed for five thousand dollars stock in the 
Street Railway Company, and on the first of October, 
1867, gave, without charge, to the Street Railway Com- 
pany, the privilege of using the lot for ten years, on 
which the stable stands, at the southern sfate. 



A MAP OF THE CEMETERY. 

Admirable Maps of the Cemetery were executed by 
Emil Steger, in 1873. A copy may be seen in the 
Secretary's office, 36 Union street, and another in that 
of the Superintendent, at the north gate of the Cem- 
etery. In this latter office there are also books 
containing the name, and designating the burial place 
of each person interred in the Cemetery. 



PUBLIC RECEIVING TOMB. 



A costly Receiving Tomb, perfectly adapted to its 
purposes, and designed to subserve every public neces- 
sity, will soon be constructed. Excavations for the 
structure have been begun. It will be built of stone and 
brick, on Elm Avenue, near Lenow Circle. 



58 Elmwood Cemetery. 



RESERVED GROUND. 



Two plats of ground have been reserved in perpetuity, 
never to be appropriated to burial purposes. These 
plats belong alike to all lot-owners, and can never have 
their uses changed. They are designed to serve as 
public parks, or open grounds, and have been dedicated 
to this purpose. One of these lies on either side and in 
front of the southern gateway, and the other is enclosed 
or properly defined, on the summit of a hill, in Fowler's 
Section. 



A PERPETUAL FUND. 



The fiscal year of the business management of the 
Cemetery begins on the first day of March. In 1875, and 
in each successive year the sum of ^2,500 will be set 
aside, as agreed by the Trustees of the Cemetery, to 
constitute part of a fund to be accumulated and invested 
in Memphis City Bonds, until one hundred thousand 
dollars of these bonds are purchased, furnishing a reve- 
nue to the Trustees of Elmwood of $6,000 per annum, 
to keep the grounds in order after the revenue from the 
sale of lots shall cease. This income is designed to 
make Elmwood fresh and attractive and beautiful forever. 
The bonds bought are to be converted into a single reg- 
istered bond for $100,000, to mature at any indefinite 
period, the sole purpose of the Trustees being to use 
the annually accruing interest in the manner indicated, 
and prevent, by every possible means, the perversion of 
the trust, or misapplication of the fund. 



Society Lots. 5 a 



Lots Owned by Corporations and Associations. 



The Masons have a beautiful lot on the Grand Tour,- 
of the area of 20,000 square feet. It is not far from 
the northern gateway. 

The Odd Fellows have a lot equally eligible, of 16,052 
square feet, in Fowler Section, and on the Grand Tour 
and Road of Honor. 

The Memphis Typographical Union owns, near the 
northern entrance, lot 279, on Fowler Avenue and the 
Grand Tour, containing 1,000 square feet. 

The Knights of Pythias selected their burial place in 
Turley Section. The pretty spot contains 1,942 square 
feet, surface measurement.* 

The Church Home bury its wards, who die in their 
charge, in Turley Section, lot No. 417. The lot contains- 
350 square feet. 

Hard by is the lot of the Leath Orphan Asylum. It 
also is in Turley Section, Nos. 425 and 420, and 
contains 523 square feet. 

This eleemosynary institution, owning these lots, was 
founded by Mrs. Sarah H. Leath, who gave its trustees, 
whom she appointed, a very valuable tract of thirty-five 
acres of land in the northeastern suburbs of the city- 
Rarely has a private charity, in any country, accom- 
plished greater good than this. Most fortunate the 
South, if many good women, in coming years, win 
faultless, enduring fame, and serve the poor and helpless 

*0n this lot the Knights have erected a significant monument, indicative of th« 
designs of the Order, and carved out of marble, by that most skillful sculptor, Mr- 
Anderson, of Anderson, Venn & Co. 



6o Elmwood Cemetery. 

as effectively as Mrs. Leath. Miss Jane Ward, who 
was appointed by Mrs. Leath to superintend the Asylum, 
served till her death, having assumed the duties of 
Matron in 1854. She was buried in Elmwood in Janu- 
ary, 1874. 

Fire Company No. 5 owns a lot in Fowler Section. 
It contains 360 square feet. 



DONATIONS 



The Cemetery Association have ceded lots to great 
public benefactors, as occurred when a beautiful burial 
place was given, that the public services of the late 
Governor and U. S. Senator, James C. Jones, might be 
properly recognized. He contributed more perhaps, 
than any one man of his time to the growth and great- 
ness of Memphis, and the Elmwood Association saw fit 
thus to attest its appreciation of his worth. The Asso- 
ciation also gave a lot to the Leath Orphan Asylum, 
and another to the Church Home, both eleemosynary 
institutions. 

The Association also gave the ground for the graves, 
and at its own cost buried the bodies of more than one 
thousand Confederate soldiers. An equal area was in 
like manner assigned to Federal soldiers, whose bodies 
were subsequently removed to the National Cemetery. 

During the prevalence of yellow fever, in 1873, the 
Association gave to the poor burial places of the value 
of $1,500. For this, the Citizens Relief Association, in 
behalf of the unfortunate whom they served, tendered 
thanks to the Elmwood Cemetery Association. 






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rOWLER. 



^Imutoai 



General Facts and Description* 



Bring roses to place in the dying one's hand, 

Pale roses, light touched with dew, 
A few withered buds from the sunny land, 

As emblems sad, yet true. 
Bring roses, white roses, to plant on the grave 

Of the loved one fallen to sleep ; 
Bring roses to strew over his narrow cave. 

Where the drooping willows weep. 



Everywhere in Elmwood one encounters evidences of 
the love entertained by the living for the dead. The 
very care and ceaseless labor expended in beautifying 
the charming place demonstrates the wonderful strength 
of that sentiment which binds us to the spot in which 
repose the ashes of the loved and lost. There is not in 
all this broad land a more attractive spot. Hills and 
dales, and grand old oaks, and dense shades, and ever- 
greens from every land, and roadways defined by taste 
and skill in landscape gardening, give absolute perfec- 
tion to the charms of Elmwood. Recentlv the area of 



,62 Ehmvood Ctmetery 



the beautiful Cemetery has been enlarged by an addition 
of forty acres. An enclosure has been made which is 
perfect in its materials and in manner of construction. 
Each cedar post, as when the Hebrews were building 
the temple, was brought from another Lebanon, and 
every care was taken that the material should be fault- 
less and enduring. Notched nails used, were made 
especially for the Elmwood Association in an Ohio vil- 
lage. Everywhere in the Cemetery there are marks of 
progressive improvement. Carriage-ways are extended 
and widened and paved ; new paths are defined for those 
who would seek solitude among the resting places of the 
dead ; weeping willows are made to bend over the graves 
, of youth and age and loveliness ; bright flowers shed 
fraorance over countless little hillocks that tell how some 
mother's heart was almost broken when a sinless little 
life left its body to repose beneath the rose-crowned sod. 
And here on the quiet, silent, holy Sunday afternoon — 

" Out in the gold of the blossoming mold " 

pale flowers, hardly more pure or meek than they who 
set them there, seem to breathe forth prayers and unut- 
terable love and aspirations for a higher, holier, mode of 
.existence, which may render the living fit for that other 
rlife begun by those whose bodies rest so quietly in 
Elmwood. 

WHAT PEOPLE WOULD KNOW. 

It is quite impossible to wander, without indulging 
vague fancies, among the thirteen thousand graves of 
the beautiful Cemetery. We are wont to contrast the 
simple monuments reared here by affection's hand with 
..those mighty memorials lifted up by wealth, and vanity, 
and power, in other lands. Modest marble slabs, on 



General Facts and Description. 63 

which are recited simple stories of Hves begun and 
ended, are oftener found than great monumental piles. 
Love would only have an enduring tablet on which its 
grief may be recorded. It was vain-glorious ambition 
that reared the pyramids, that built the wonderful tomb 
of Mausoleus, and dug catacombs beneath imperial 
Rome. Here, in Elmwood, sea-shells that chant ever a 
sad requiem, flowers that bloom perennially, and immor- 
telles breathing out beauty almost musical in poetical 
utterance, tell the story of death's invasion of households 
from whose doorways the sunshine was shut out forever. 

RULES OF THE CEMETEEY. 

Entering the Cemetery, either by the northern or 
southern gateway, one finds on the wall of the gate- 
keeper's lodge, and on guide boards, the " Rules and 
Regulations of the Cemetery." By these the graves 
are protected against desecration, and flowers and trees 
against unworthy footsteps. Gate-keepers, gardeners 
and superintendents are invested by a special enactment 
of the Legislature, with the rights, powers and immu- 
nities of policemen, and may make arrests, and violators 
of the Rules of the Cemetery may be punished as are 
they who violate the city's code. 

Under the Act incorporating the Association, fifty 
gentlemen subscribed $500 each, creating a capital of 
$25,000. A tract of forty acres was first purchased, and 
recently forty have been added, the whole costing ^65,000. 
This purchase and the construction of the costly enclo- 
sure have retarded the progress of many improvements 
contemplated by the Trustees. Such has been the Com- 
pany's good fortune that its property, derived from an 
original investment of ^25,000, is now worth ^250,000. 



64 Elmzvood Cemetery. 

It was agreed, when the Association was organized, that 
no dividend greater than ten per cent, on the original 
investment (5^25, 000) should ever be distributed among 
the shareholders, and to this contract the Association has 
ever rigidly adhered. The whole annually accruing in- 
come is expended in perfecting the matchless attractions 
of this resting place of the dead. To this purpose not 
less than $20,000 are annually devoted. 

Every lot-owner in the Cemetery is interested in the 
successful execution of the plans of the President and 
Trustees. If the Association had been disposed to specu- 
late, it miofht have watered its stock, Qrivinsf it a face value 
equal to that of its property, and on this $250,000 annually 
declare dividends of ten per cent., thus making the annual 
revenue of each shareholder equal to the sum of his origi- 
nal investment. No one would have had the rio-ht to 
complain, and few associations of gentlemen, in this cor- 
rupt age, would have been restrained by an agreement 
to act differently — made only among themselves, and in 
reference to which other persons had no right to speak. 
But criticism is silenced, and all possible dpubt as to the 
stainless integrity of the proprietors of Elmwood have 
been dispelled by the dissolution of the original corpora- 
tion and transfer of the property to Trustees, represent- 
ing and elective by the owners of lots in the Cemetery. 




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Ite jfufuni of tht[ tcmderg. 



Captain Joseph Lenow has presided over, and, to a 
very great extent, shaped the fortunes of the Corpo- 
ration through the past fifteen years. He has said that, 
with its present resources, ten years would be required 
for the perfection of plans and improvements contem- 
plated. When these aims are achieved, little can be 
done to render Elmwood more beautiful. Fountains 
will send up sparkling columns flashing in the sunlight, 
and every flower that blooms in fadeless beauty will shed 
its fragrance there, and trees and roses, bending grace- 
fully before soft winds that sigh above the graves of 
Elmwood, will render the place as charming as the 
gardens of Paestum. 

PROGRESS OF IMPROVEMENTS. 

The construction of roadways through Elmwood, the 

perfection of gradients and curves, the opening of 

drains, the removal of trees, decoration of lots, and 

perfection of drawings and plans, not only engage every 

5 



66 Elmwood Cemetery 



thought of the President of the Association, but of the 
Superintendent, Mr. PhilHps, a civil engineer and land- 
scape gardener of life-long training and thorough 
proficiency. A little stream winds its way along a 
valley. Its bed is to be cleared of the obstructions 
and matted with Bermuda grass. It will soon be 
spanned by gracefully arched bridges, some of which 
are just completed, and near it a lake is dug, to be 
adorned by fountains, the water to be driven by pressure 
from the public reservoir. It is the intention of the 
Company, at some future time, to co-operate with the 
city in building a paved, durable road, on the best route 
from the city, to approach the Cemetery at the northern 
entrance. All the avenues and walks are to be 
graveled. 

In Turley's Section, on the summit of the loftiest hill 
in the Cemetery, is Lenow's Circle, and in the center of 
this a beautiful pagoda will stand, and within it a foun- 
tain will give freshness to breezes that sweep over the 
spot. 

LABORS OF MAlSTAGPiES. 

The duties incident to the superintendency of a City 
of the Dead, containing thirteen thousand inhabitants, 
like Elmwood, and its numbers being constantly aug- 
mented, are infinitely more onerous than people imagine. 
Titles and maps of lots are carefully recorded, and a 
register of deeds is made. There is no recorder's court,, 
but a police force is ever present at work. So admirably 
well are the records of the Cemetery kept that none 
have ever encountered the slightest difficulty in ascer- 
taining the precise spot in which a friend or relative was 
buried. The names of the dead are alphabetically 



lVo}?ian's Devotioti. 67 

recorded, and so with those of lot-owners. A plat of 
each lot is preserved, and on it appears each grave, with 
marginal notes below, giving the name of its occupant. 
People from distant States and cities have often sought 
to learn whether soldiers and others, — long unheard of, — 
slept in Elmwood. The facts are divulged at once, and 
many wives and mothers have derived melancholy plea- 
sure from the consciousness that their tears bedewed the 
last resting place of those they loved, directed as they 
were infallibly to proper graves by the perfectly 
systematized books of the Elmwood Association. 

WOMAN'S DEVOTION. 

While men do not forget formal duties to the dead 
women are most demonstrative, and ever to be found 
wandering with lightest footsteps among the graves 
within the hallowed precincts of Elmwood. Visit the 
place w^ien one may, and everywhere women, with 
tearful eyes, will be seen bending, the very imper- 
sonations of grief, over cherished graves. By women 
little incidents are remembered, and memories of the 
dead are treasured up with religious care. Every tone 
of endearment uttered by the dead when living becomes 
as sweet as kisses "by hopeless fancy feigned on lips 
that are for others." Woman's tears rise in the heart 
and gather in the eyes from the depth of some divine 
despair, and to woman is assigned the tenderest, most 
touchino^ tasks of devotion to the dead. Men build 
monuments, but women sanctify them. Vanity does not 
stand by when woman, the beautiful, the generous, the 
true — who in the Madonna imbued the mind of our 
Savior with the first sweet lessons of love — tenders the 
tribute of tears to hallowed memories and deathless love. 
Vanity suggests no task of gentle devotion to the loved 



68 Elmwood Cemetery. 

and lost assumed by mothers, sisters, wives. Man may 
build a proud mausoleum to tell posterity of his deeds, 
but woman will reck little of its masfnificence when 
dreamily bestrewing its base with roses. Go to Elm- 
wood and one may learn true woman's worth. 

GENEKOSITY OF THE ELMWOOD ASSOCIATION. 

One thousand Confederate soldiers sleep in Elmwood. 
The Elmwood Association gave the ground, and made 
no charge for services rendered by their employees. The 
base of a monument, hereafter to be reared in the 
middle of this bivouac of the dead, has been prepared 
for the marble shaft, on whose sides will be inscribed 
recitals of gallant deeds done by those who began here 
an eternal march. 



GENERAL SUGGESTIONS. 



THE SUPERINTENDENT. 

In 1866, just after the cessation of hostilities between 
the States, Mr. S. W. Phillips, a skillful engineer and 
landscape gardener, formerly of Bellefontaine Cemetery, 
St. Louis, was made Superintendent and Secretary and 
Treasurer of Elmwood Association. In 1871, Mr. 
Phillips was relieved of duties incident to the latter 



Gefieral Suggestio7is. 69 

offices, since filled by John H. Lenow, Esq., and he 
now devotes himself exclusively to his proper profes- 
sional task as Superintendent. To his taste and skill, 
and thorough mastery of every duty incident to the 
office of Superintendent of Elmwood, this charming 
place is indebted for much of its attractiveness. In his 
latest report he tells that there have been nearly 14,000 
interments, 759 of these Federal soldiers, whose bodies 
have been removed ; that old drives, where practicable, 
have been widened ; the course and location of others 
changed, and new ones opened. The grounds, in many 
places, have been properly graded, and evergreens and 
forest trees planted. Many costly and tasteful monu- 
ments have been erected, and stone curbing placed 
around many lots. Dense, tall hedges, which have 
outgrown all purposes of adornment, and are no longer 
approved, have been removed, and, in most instances, 
lot-owners have substituted stone curbing to define the 
boundaries of lots. By this means the Cemetery has 
been rendered doubly attractive ; monuments become 
visible, and every charm of the landscape is perfected 
and appreciable. As overgrown shrubbery, in older 
portions of the Cemetery, is slowly removed, cedar 
posts are used to designate the corners of lots. That 
Elmwood's beauties have been thus multiplied, none 
deny. 

INSTRUCTIONS TO LOT-OWNERS. 

Those accustomed, through long periods, to supervise 
Cemeteries, may proffer valuable suggestions to grief- 
stricken survivors of the loved and lost. When shocked 
or paralyzed by irremediable calamities wrought by 
death, those who loved the dead are least fitted to pro- 
vide, at once, means of perpetuating and honoring their 



JO Elmwood Cemetery. 

memories. It were wise, in most instances, if the 
survivors postponed, till grief were soothed by the lapse 
of time, the attestation of love or veneration, or respect 
for the dead. Taste and judgment, like the vision, are 
blinded by tears. Headstones disfigure a pretty spot, 
while a proper monument, in the center of a lot, 
beautifies it forever. Such a monument would endure 
through an indefinite period, and on its sides might be 
inscribed legends recitative of the virtues and worth of 
all whose deeds we w^ould commemorate. 

SHRUB BEEY. 

The selection and use of large trees, such as cedars 
and magnolias, to adorn lots, should be made by the 
Trustees or their agents. Such trees conceal the beau- 
ties of the Cemetery, render monuments invisible, 
obstruct the vision and the course of breezes that in 
spring and summer render the place delightful. These 
evergreens often absolutely destroy the most pleasing 
effects of landscape gardening. Shrubs and dwarf 
trees, that may be trimmed, are best adapted to uses of 
lot-owners in the Cemetery. The use of shells in 
making walks through lots, and between graves, cannot 
be approved. Such walks can hardly be kept in order. 

NUMBER AND CHARACTER OF LOTS. 

Burial lots are laid off as the demand requires, and 
lots, in every respect as eligible as any heretofore 
disposed of, can always be secured. A buyer can 
surely be pleased when he may select any one of three 
thousand lots. It is only proper to say, that the concur- 
rence and co-operation of lot-owners, with the Trustees 
and their agents, should be perfect ; otherwise, supposed 
embellishments, without plan or uniform design, will mar, 
rather than heighten, the supreme loveliness of Elmwood. 



General Suggestions. 71 

THE SUPPLY OF LOTS. 

If one suppose the population of Memphis, and the 
adjoining territory which buries in its Cemeteries, to be 
80,000, and that this will be increased at the rate of 
5,000 per annum, and the ratio of burials to the number 
of people remain unchanged, there is land enough 
in Elmwood to supply the exactions of death for thirty- 
three years — the life-time of a generation. -This 
estimate is not a random guess, but is based upon a 
mathematical calculation. 

WHAT STONE TO USE. 

If the living desire to erect monuments in attestation 
of the virtues of the dead, and not to their own vanity, 
granite is the material which should be used. It lasts, 
unchanged, even when exposed to storm and tempest 
and winter's cold a.nd summer's heat, through ages. 
Marble is soon discolored, and frost and heat soon 
impair the smoothness of its gloss}^ surface. Granite is 
preferred to marble or other stone in all the great Ceme- 
teries of this country and of Europe, and the best is 
found in Sweden and Scotland. Oulncy granite is 
much used for monumental purposes, and Is deemed 
almost or quite as durable as that from Scotland. 

DESIGNS FOR MONUMENTS. 

Perfect oneness in the designs and plans of different 
monuments reflects harshly upon the taste and genius 
of their builders. Variety in materials and in designs is 
most desirable, and it would be pleasing to the public if 
every monument lifted up In Elmwood were wholly 
unlike all that have been reared in former years. Little 
deviations from the plan of the great number of monu- 
ments are hardly observed, and there is a singular and 



72 Elmwood Cemetery. 

disagreeable sameness in white, ghostly stones that 
uplift their shapes so silently and solemnly above the 
graves of Elmwood. 

VAULTS. 

Vaults, as depositories for the dead, were once com- 
monly used among the most enlightened, as well as 
amoiag barbarous nations. In our time, vaults are little 
approved. No structure above ground, however costly, 
can evade the decree, " dust thou art, and unto dust 
thou shalt return." Little hillocks, side by side, lifted 
up as if mother earth sighed when her children fell, may 
not be suggestive of beauty or significant of joy ; but 
infinitely less pleasurable are associations of the family 
vault. Within its damp green walls, there is the very 
breath and odor of death. Unless each apartment be 
securely sealed, there are noxious vapors exhaled which 
make the dead, sought to be preserved, offensive to 
every sense. There is no proper resting place for the 
dead save beneath the green sod, where flowers bloom, 
and trees sigh, and breezes blow, and birds sing, and 
where Spring, lightly tripping away from the tropics, 
scatters roses forever. 



Tba aid Blarris Samet^rij;. 



The square now occupied by the vast building of the 
Mutual Storage Company, was once an attractive burial 
place. It is four acres in area, and bounded on two 
sides by South and Main streets. The place was knowri 



The old Morris Cemetery 



as Morris Cemetery. Half of it had been sold in small 
lots to persons who had deposited within it the remains 
of their kindred or friends. Memphis was growing rap- 
idly, and in 1859, when Capt. Lenow became President 
of Elmwood Association, Morris Cemetery was com- 
monly regarded, save by a few of its lot-owners, almost 
a public nuisance, being within a rapidly growing part 
of the city, and to President Lenow was assigned the 
difficult and thankless task of transferring bodies from 
the old graveyard to Elmwood. He encountered num- 
berless obstacles. Popular prejudices were aroused, 
and the tedious, annoying task was persistently prose- 
cuted through three years. 

The Elmwood Association gave a lot in Elmwood for 
each lot in the old Cemetery that had been sold, and 
paid all costs incident to the transfer of bodies and 
tombstones, and paid in money for the unsold ground. 
When the work was done the people were well pleased, 
and none better than lot-owners in the old graveyard. 
Then it was proposed by Capt. Lenow and his asso- 
ciates, that the old Morris Cemetery should be sold to 
the city government for city bonds, that a permanent 
fund for the maintenance of Elmwood might be created. 
For ten years the property was held, and proffered to 
the city, at a price less than that recently given for it by 
merchants of Memphis ; and thus another beneficent 
purpose of the original owners of Elmwood was defeated. 
They proposed to have the old Cemetery converted by 
the city into a public square, so sadly needed in south- 
ern districts of Memphis. The old Morris Cemetery^ 
that exists no longer, and is now the scene of the busiest 
daily mercantile events in Memphis, was established by 
an old and worthy citizen of Memphis. Walter B. Morris^ 



74 Elmwood Cemetery. 



of whose virtues and public spirit it was the last memo- 
rial. His body rests now in Elmwood, beside that of 
his estimable wife. He was buried originally in Morris 
Cemetery, while she, having died in November, 1873, 
at Pacific Place, in Arkansas, the residence of her son 
Charles, was recently interred in Elmwood. She w^as 
the daughter of Col. George Elliott, of Sumner County, 
the intimate friend and associate of Andrew Jackson, 
The daughter inherited the noblest virtues of her father, 
and a better mother or wife rests not in this great depos- 
itory of the dead. 



CAUTION TO FLOWER DEPREDATORS. 



A holy sanctity, from heaven descended, invests with 
security every tree and shrub and flower that grows 
green in spring time, or diffuses fragrance, or smiles 
with radiant beauty within the confines of the Cemetery. 
They are more than ordinary thieves who rob the homes 
of the dead of charms with which to adorn the abodes of 
the living ; and yet there are thieves so utterly depraved 
that they deliberately destroy beauties which no skill in 
art, or tireless toil, can resupply. No flower or vase will 
be suffered by the gate-keepers to be removed from the 
Cemetery. None may violate this rule with impunity, 
unless allowed by a special permit from the Superin- 
tendent. Moreover, the sum of twenty dollars will be 
paid for information that will lead to the arrest and 



Extract from Report of President Lenoiv. 75 



conviction of any one who forgets, when in Ehiiwood, 
that he treads upon holy ground. The guardians of the 
Cemetery, Gate-keepers, Watchmen and Superintend- 
ent, are invested by law with the rights and powers of 
policemen ; and those infringing rules made for the 
protection of the Cemetery, and of its trees and flowers, 
will be arrested and punished. The Association will 
prosecute any offender in this behalf with the utmost 
vigor ; giving, through their vigilance, the same fostering 
protection to the wild flowers, nature's beneficent gift to 
the holy place, as to those planted by affection's hand 
and watered by sorrow's silent tears. The place, and all 
that it contains, is hallowed in our hearts, and in our 
memories. 



EXTRACT FROM THE REPORT OF PRESIDENT LENOW TO 
THE STOCKHOLDERS, MARCH 1, 1860. 

" The grounds at Elmwood are rapidly increasing in 
attractiveness and beauty ; and it is to be hoped the 
main object, in organizing the Company, will never be 
lost sight of, to-wit : The creation, in our vicinity, of a 
resting place for the dead in harmony with the improved 
taste and refinement of the age. A spot, so far from 
being repulsive, and associated in our minds with deso- 
lation and death, will, by its cooling shades, its tasteful 
walks, its perpetual verdure, and trees of every clime, 
be one around which we will delight to linger, hallowed 
as it must be by ties and sympathies the most cherished 
and sacred." 



TREES. 



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Feelings of pain akin to horror have been excited 
when lot-owners of Elmwood have proposed the remo- 
val of grand old trees, whose presence fills the place 
with solemn beauty. A moment's reflection presents 
the proposition in an aspect so repulsive that we are 
very sure it will never be executed. The Board of 
Trustees will never assent to the inconsiderate demand. 
If persons of peculiar tastes object to the presence of 
trees, they may purchase lots on which trees never 
grew. If they own lots overshadowed by oaks and elms, 
the Trustees will exchange for these other property, on 
which no waving branches will ever cast cool refreshing 
shadows, where forest birds will never sing nature's 
hymns of praise, the sweetest lullabies ever chanted over 
those that sleep beneath the sod. 

Every human heart instinctively loves beautiful and 
graceful trees, and poets have unceasingly pointed out 
the close analogy between the forest and the human 



The Trees of Holy Writ. ']'] 



family. In the woods, as among men, stand the hoary 
ancestors, the mature and vigorous by their side, bud- 
ding infancy at their feet. There they stand, the beau- 
tiful and the ugly, the crooked and straight, wholesome 
and poisonous, fruitful and barren, living and dead ; 
some dying in ripe old age, and others uprooted in 
the wild tornadoes of youth ; the many crushed in 
infancy, a perfect symbol of the human family. Our 
feelings deepen into reverence as the mind ponders over 
the strange revelations of inner truth these voiceless 
teachers silently convey to thinking men, and clearer 
grows the eternal law of analogy between mankind and 
the trees. 

TREES SACRED. 

There are strange things predicated of trees in Holy 
Writ, and we marvel to see them spoken of as rational 
beings, having understandings, wills and muscular 
powers, so that they walk, talk, laugh and sing, worship 
and rejoice, and clap their hands, are happy and some- 
times miserable ; now strong, now weak, one day in an 
Eden of glory, and the next a prey to storm or fire. Our 
Lord cursed a barren tree. Surely the tree itself, 
unconscious and helpless, could not have excited His 
indignation, but as He only spoke in parables, and often 
acted parables, it is reasonable to infer that the tree 
represented some principle of the human mind which 
was opposed to divine goodness or wisdom, and was a 
lesson in symbols for His hearers. The world is the 
kindergarteii for His children, and through natural 
objects He teaches spiritual truths, and by the light of a 
divine science we learn how every shade and tint of 
man's affections will be found in the beasts ; all his 



78 Elmwood Cemetery. 

thoughts in the birds of the air, all his intellectual prin- 
ciples in the trees in whose branches the birds build 
nests, and he who runs may read the lesson on every 
page of nature, and prove it by the Word of God. We 
plead earnestly with these painfully practical people for 
our beloved trees, with grateful memories of their 
tireless, loving watches over the precious dead, when 
only the stars look down on the dreariness and silence of 
the grave, or storms lash their brave, wide-spread arms 
that would shield our beloved from their fury. 



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Nearly four thousand years ago, the HebreAV patriarch 
inculcated proper lessons affecting the decoration of 
Cemeteries, and the selection of their sites. He said, 
"let us have the field, and all the trees that are in the 
field and that are in the borders round about, and let 
them be made sure, for the possession of a burying 
place." Hebrews, from the hour the patriarch spoke, 
have ever watched and guarded their burial places with 
relioflous care. The most attractive sites were selected 
by them in the midst of most beautiful gardens or for- 
ests, or on verdure -clad mountain sides. Ancient 
Asiatics, as did the Romans, lined approaches to centers 
of populations with sarcophagi, and enduring memorials 
and monuments, and tombs, rose -embowered, stood 
among lofty palms, beyond the walls of oriental cities. 
The Greeks rarely buried the dead within their cities. 
Their cenotaphs stood in the midst of shady groves, 
filled with music by murmuring streams, that sang lulla- 
bies and rendered the word " Cemetery," signifying a 



Elniwood Cemetejy. 



place of repose, singularly appropriate when applied to 
our last resting places. Germans, when Caesar wrote 
of them, were wont to bury their dead in groves conse- 
crated by their priests. The early Christians, shunning 
persecution, found proper temples in the densest forests, 
and beneath their moaning branches, buried their dead. 
In ancient Egypt, the pine was deemed significant of 
immortality. Virgil tells, in flowing numbers, of mourn- 
ful sounds that echo among sighing pines, when soft 
winds creep among the branches of the bending trees, 
and calls them musical : 

" The pines of Menelaus were heard to mourn, 
And sounds of woe along the groves were borne." 

Allusions to the woods and forests of Syria and Pales- 
tine constitute illustrations of thought in the most 
beautifully poetical chapters of the Bible. Jehovah said, 
" I will plant in the wilderness the cedar. I will set in 
the desert the fir tree and the pine." A heaven- 
descended sanctity is exhaled from trees and flowers, 
and especially from those that bend over sepultures, and 
load with perfumes breezes that toy among monuments 
reared in honor of the great, the humble, the aged, the 
young and beautiful of our race. 

We trust that the desecration of the beautiful Ceme- 
tery, involved in the destruction of trees, will never be 
permitted. The discontented can easily find barren 
ground, and the Trustees of the Cemetery will suffer 
any one that chooses to augment, but never lessen, the 
number of trees in Elmwood. 



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" Tl^f 6'raz'c j//i;«A/ be surroimded by everything that might inspire tenderness 
and veneration for the dead, or that might win the living to virtue. It is a place 
not of disgust and dismay, but of sorro^v and meditation." — WASHINGTON IRVING. 




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Epitaphs should be modest, or they become absurd, and however 
just in the eyes of deathless love that writes them, often seem to the 
indifferent multitude ludicrously and painfully exaggerated, in stilted 
language used, and in assertions of the worth of the dead. It is 
worse than needless to ascribe virtues to the dead, of which the living 
were wholly ignorant, and it were infinitely wiser, since the best of us 
have our confessed weaknesses, to specify the peculiar virtues of the 
departed, and leave silence, on bended knees, to crave the oblivion of 
fatal defects. Modest simplicity and exact truthfulness should char- 
acterize each inscription on every tomb ; or, if this be not approved, 
let the carved legend only tell the name and age and deeds of the 
dead. Pericles accepted this suggestion when he refused to have even 
his name carved beneath his bust. If not recognized without the 
inscription, he did not deem himself worthy of it. If the dead 
deserve praise, and they who read epitaphs owe a debt of gratitude, 
it will be the more cheerfully paid when most modestly exacted. 
Epitaphs, besides the avoidance of excessive eulogy, should be simple 
in style, and, while resignation and calmness are expected in places of 
•Christian sepulture, coldness and studied effects cannot be approved. 
In a word, let the lines of an epitaph be : — 

" Simple and few, tender and true." 



SUBDIVISIONS OF ELMWOOD. 

Elmwood Cemetery, as appears upon the map of the place, is sub- 
divided into six sections ; four of these are named and two are not. 
The names are Chapel Hill, Fowler, Turley, and South Grove. 
These sections are subdivided into lots, except portions of Chapel 
Hill and South Grove. Two sections have never been defined, or 
sold, or named. All the sections are laid off in reference to the con- 
formation of the ground — its hills and valleys. A circle crowns the 
summit of Chapel Hill, known as Chapel Hill Circle, and there is 
a,nother like it in Turley Section, known as Lenow Circle ; both 
circles are subdivided into lots, with a reserved circle in the center 
■of each, on which pagodas and fountains are to be erected. 



The Maihar^s ©ffermg;* 



" Flowers are wanted in Heaven to-day," 

An angel said to me ; 
" And we have enough, save a few more buds — 

J 'our little bud I would see." 

1 turned me about and brought forth mj' child ; 
'J'he angel looked in her tace and smiled ; 

" There is nothing fairer on high," said he ; 

" I will take this bud it it pleaselh thee." 

I looked at the child, and I thought, " Alas ! 
Life is ever as brittle as glass. 

In manhood as in infancy ; 
Some day when my bud doth wider ope; 
Just when the full-blown flower, I hope. 

It may fade, and droop, and die. 

Or if riDt so, yet in coming years 
(In this sad world so full of snares). 

As my flower I stoop to kiss. 
It may be my lot to weep and start, 
As I see coiled up, in its inmost heart, 

A serpent with venomed hiss ! 

It may fall to me— ah ! who can tell? — 
In after years to remember well. 

What the angel asked to-day ; 
And to wish, with many and many a tear, 
1 had parted that day with my bud so dear. 

And granted my God His way." 

I will do this now. In the realms on high 
My bud shall never more " sorrow or cry," 

My bud never fade or fall — 
And I will not think of the dreary tomb : 
1 will look above where my flower doth bloom, 

I will have -ao funeral pall. 

For this is not Death, with the sombre wing ; 
'Tis but transplanting the dear little thing 

To the garden of my God. 
Ah, me I I shall miss her — that I know ! 
But I will not call this a cruel blow. 
Nor say, " I have felt the rod." 

So I took my babe to my loving breast 

And nursed, and soothed, and sung her to rest ; 

The angel, meanwhile, smiled — 
" She is sleeping," I said, " let her not awake. 
Till the glory of God arrund her break ! " 

And I gave him 7ity little child. 

Then I turned and bowed me low to the ground ; 
3 rose — neither angel nor child I found 1 
}jut I have no fears, and 1 love to think 
Of the lilies above at the fountain's brink. 
And I quiet my heart with the precious thought, 
"My child is with God, and can lack for nought;" 
And I know that sotnetime—\i\\fiVL God shall please- 
will meet her again 'neath the shadowless trees. 



Happily Time niellows mid softens the past. It not only ameliorates 
ats harshness, removes the asperities of grief, and brings oblivion to 
cast its mantle over old contests, but lifts us out of our narrow self- 
fflshness into the largeness and catholicity of humanity, and into sym- 
ipathy with the brotherhood of man. Here and to-day the pettiness 
< four lives engrosses us; our struggles, our toil, our triumphs and 
failures, and our tears, are all the world to us. We constantly magnify 
and dwell upon them ; but when we draw away from them and wander 
among the graves of those whose lives were much the same with ours, 
these woes grow less and less, and fade away at last into very noth- 
ingness. It were well if the living were oftener imbued with wisdom 
:3nd divinest charity, inculcated by the silent eloquence of the dead. 
We will surely exercise a sounder philosophy, and profounder christian 
charity, if we constantly gather tender memories, not only of those we 
loved, of our own friends and kindred, but of those from whom we 
differed. Death is the leveler of our race, and in the grave, whatever 
feults and mistakes characterized the living, all are brothers. Learn 
lessons inculcated by Monuments in Elmwood, and your own lives 
will be made fragrant and beautiful, and your aspirations heightened 
by tender and affectionate memories thus awakened. 



Jesse Allen, the father of Thomas H. Allen, the latter a most 
successful merchant, of Mempliis, died July 15, 1857, in the 80th year 
©f his age. In attestation of the virtues of the father, the son caused 
a tasteful gothic monument, of Italian marble, to lift its stately, 
chaste proportions above the father's grave. The base is of variegated 
marble, four feet square, while the white marble shaft that rises above 
it, is sixteen feet in height. The Allen lot is on Evergreen Avenue. 



86 Elniwood- Cemetery. 



E. M. Apperson has expended a deal of money, and exercised 
excellent good taste in perfecting the attractiveness of lot No. 6, in 
Turley Section, on Central Avenue. From its midst rises an elabo- 
rately carved white marble monument, twenty feet high. The central 
portion is twice the height of shorter columns, one on either side, 
carved from the same marble block. On these two stand beautiful 
figures of Faith and Hope, and on the summit of the loftiest shaft the 
Archangel appears, trumpet in hand, to call those that rest below tO' 
a final reckoning. Gabriel looks and points heavenward, and the 
story of man's future life is told most effectively by the speechless' 
stone. Muldoon, Bullett & Co., designed and executed this monument. 



Armstronc4. — A gray granite shaft, heavy square, unpolished, lifts^- 
its imposing, massive shape in the center of a circular lot in Chapet 
Hill Section, to tell posterity where rest the ashes of Alice E. and 
John Walton Armstrong. This monument is admirable for its tasteful- 
simplicity, and above all for its indestructible freshness and durability- 
It will stand firm and strong and unimpaired through countless coming 
years, while marble will be blackened by time and made rough by 
frosts of successive winters. This massive pillar of stone is twenty- 
three feet high, designating the grave of a most fascinating and 
admirable woman. 



Enoch Banks. — A plain, square, marble shaft, eighteen feet in- 
height, and resting on a heavy sandstone pediment, distinguishes the- 
grave of Enoch Banks, ex-Mayor of Memphis. The monument is on 
Central Avenue. 



Geraldus Buntyn. — A tastefully and elaborately carved fluted 
column, the handiwork of John White, the artist stone-cutter who 
wrought out the first monument that lifts its pale white face above the 
sod in Eltnwood, designates the last resting of Geraldus Buntyn, of 
whom we tell in another place. This light, gracefully-drained Corinth- 
ian pillar, is fifteen feet high, and looks down upon Central Avenue., 
in Turley Section. 



The Monutnents. 87 



Edwin Campbell, of Campbellspcnt, Ohio, died in New Orleans in 
1870, sixty-one years of age. He was interred in lot 34, Lenow 
Circle, and an admirable square, Scotch granite monument, elabo- 
rately wrought, lifts its stately proportions above his last resting 
place. His widow erected the monument, and carefully adorns the 
lot on which it stands. 



E. E. Clai;k has erected on his lot, on Chapel Hill Circle and 
Prospect Avenue, an enduring and massive octagonal column of white 
marble, eighteen feet high, resting on an indestructible limestone 
base. It is suggestive of durability rather than of beauty, and is not 
the less tasteful and admirable as a monument to solid wortli. 



J. C. Davis, on a most carefully watched and decorated lot, on 
Chapel Hill, its narrow walks paved as was the courts of ancient tem- 
ples, has erected a monument of Parian stone. Its graceful proportions 
and modest inscriptions tell of the worth and garnered memories of 
his wife. The marble shaft is eighteen feet high, and on its sides are 
inscribed legends that properly assert the virtues of the dead. This 
monument is on Prospect Avenue. Executed by H. 8cheer. 



Dr. Dudley Dunn. — Two square, tapering marble shafts, two feet 
apart, and connected by an arch si)ringing from the middle of each 
pillar, tell the simple annals of the life and death of Dr. Dudley and 
his Avife, Paulina A. Dunn. They were of the earliest white inhabi- 
tants of this county, and deserved, for their many virtues, this 
enduring attestation of honest worth. The monument is in Fowler 
Section. 



Wm. T. Driver. — A square, massive pillar of Grecian marble, 
tapering from its base to its summit, designates the grave of Major 
Driver. On a shield, in bold relief, projecting from one of its sides, is 
inscribed much the same story as that told of Major Driver in another 
place. This deserved attestation in stone of a true soldier's worth is 
in Chapel Hill Circle. 



88 Ehnwood Cemetery. 



Claiborne DeLoach. — A magnificent and costly monument desig- 
nates the grave of Claiborne DeLoach, a once prosperous merchant 
-of Memphis. A marble pillar, twenty-seven feet high, crowned with 
a graceful figure of Hope leaning upon an anchor, rises above the 
tomb. This lofty pillar is supported by a pi-ojection on either side of 
half its own height. These are crowned by urns, finished with pains- 
taking skill and exquisite taste. This monument is in Chapel Hill 
Section, on Evergreen Avenue, and was made by Muldoon, Bullett 
<&;Co. 



The GooDLETT monument stands on Woodland Avenue, lot 1(3, in 
South Grove Section, tastefully enclosed with marble curbing. In 
the center of the lot stands a beautifully carved octagonal marble 
shaft, fifteen feet high. On the dye is an elaborately wrought 
wreath of flowers of most exquisite workmanship. An admirably 
well-proportioned urn, beautifully draped, crowns the summit of the 
marble pillar, made by jNIaydwell & Anderson. 



Capt. Angus Greenlaw, the navigator, through a brief but vigor- 
ous and active life of the " inland sea," of which Calhoun spoke, is 
entombed on the lot of his son-in-law, Maj. J. A, Lea. A marble block, 
very like a steamer's capstan, about which a cable is entwined, and to 
this an anchor attached, stands at the head of his grave. The design 
is pleasing and well-executed. This lot is No. 272, in Fowler's Sec- 
tion, on the Grand Tour, and is constantly visited by navigators of 
the Mississippi. Executed by Maydwell & Anderson. 



\V. B. and J. O. Greenlaw.^ — ^The lives of these brothers were aii 
inseparable unity. They owned evei-ything in common, and consti- 
tuted, as illustrated by the broken corinthian column that marks their 
chosen burial place, a single pillar of strength and resistless force. 
This column, broken in twain, one-half its length lying beside the 
grave, the other erect, tells of Oliver Gi-eenlaw's death, and that 
Borden survives. Properly attesting the worth of one of earth's true 
nobility, the monument attracts many to Central Avenue. Executed 
by Fisher & Amis. 



The Mo7iuine7its. 89 



Barnett GiiAiiAiSr. — An Italian marble column, twenty feet in 
height, marks the burial place of Barnett Graham. A draped urn 
surmounts the substantial shaft that stands in Fowler's Section. It 
was made by those skillful builders of monuments, Maydwell & 
Anderson. 



W. A. GooDWYN. — The monument erected above the graves of 
of his children by W. A. Goodwyn, will attract attention for its 
height, and for the taste that planned, and skill that made it. It 
is a heavy, square marble shaft, twenty feet high, with a beautiful 
figure of an angel, in bold relief, on its side," near the summit. This 
gracefully shaped stone is on lots 132 and 133, in Fowler's Section. 



<JoL. AVm. It. Hunt. — The very tasteful monument which marks 
the burial place of Wm. R. Hunt is wrought out of Italian marble. 
Its pedestal is of Quincy granite, three feet in thickness, while the 
heavy marble dye, six feet high, richly carved, and having proper 
inscriptions on an elaborately wrought shield, in bold relief, is 
surmounted by an angel's statue, deemed an admirable work of art. 
This monument, made by Muldoon, Bullett & Co.. is in the same lot 
with that of Major Driver. 



Thomas A. Hamilton. — A magnificent white marble monument 
attests the virtues and worth of Mrs. Hamilton. The central column 
is twenty-five feet high. A shield, in bold relief, on wdiich a legend 
recites the story of the life and death of the wife, adorns a face of the 
stainless stone. The central shaft is supported on either side by pro- 
jections of half the height of the main column, and each of these is 
surmounted by an urn, elaborately carved and ornamented. Funereal 
torches appear to illumine the scroll on which the simple incidents of 
woman's life and death are graven. The words " my wife," catch the 
eye of every wanderer in Elmwood, and as sad recollections rise up 
from the dreamland of memory, each visitor reads, in tenderest accents 
as he wanders on, the brief recital. This costly monument is on 
Chapel Hill Circle. 



90 Elmwood Cemetery. 



W. B, Hajilin owns a beautiful lot, constantly decorated with 
flowers, and carefully guarded. Its narrow walks are prettily adorned, 
and wreaths of roses or evergreens are often twined about two tasteful 
marble monuments, twelve and fifteen feet high. This lot is on 
Chapel Hill. 



R. S. Jones has erected on lot 2B1, in Turley Section, on Central 
Avenue, a white, fluted column of Italian Marble, twenty feet high. 
An elaborately carved cinerary urn crowns the summit of this family 
monument. Executed by Fisher & Amis. 



John Kerr, by birth a North Carolinian, and of late years a 
merchant of Augusta, Georgia, and later still a land-owner of Mem- 
phis, died here in 1870, seventy-eight years of age. A Doric 
column of purest white marble, twenty feet high, and of massive 
proportions, distinguishes his grave. On the summit of the shaft an 
angel stands resting upon an anchor. This attractive monument is on- 
Central Avenue. 



Daniel Lake has caused to be erected above his wife's grave a 
beautifully polished column of Scotch granite, the shaft eighteen feet 
high. It stands in Chapel Hill Circle, and is worthy of the attention 
it constantly attracts. It is not only most beautiful, but most durable, 
and will tell many coming generations of the living and dead of our 
time. 



James J. Robson was the jjartner of Thomas H. Allen, of Mem- 
phis, He died in New Orleans, of yellow fever, in 1853, and above 
his grave the hand of friendship and affection has reared an admir- 
ably carved and tasteful monument of whitest marble. There is not 
in Elmwood a more symmetrical and beautifully finished memorial 
than this, which tells us where an honest merchant rests. It is on 
Evergreen Avenue. 



The Monuments. 91 



John Stratton has caused a splendid monument to lift its stately 
proportions above his father's grave. It is an Italian marble shaft, 
twenty-five feet high, octagonal, with Corinthian capital, and a 
massive and beautifully carved urn upon its summit. It is on Oak 
Avenue, in Chapel Hill Section. 



Ella Shock. — A pretty fancy is expressed in the Italian marble on 
which Captain Sam Shock has inscribed his daughter Ella's name. 
Beside the rough block of enduring stone a cross, constituting a part 
of the Tinpolished marble, is lifted up. A morning glory twines its 
blossoming tendrils about it, and a lily blooms above it, and above the 
cross is inscribed the word "Ella." This tasteful and unique memo- 
rial of love and grief is on Evergreen Avenue, in Chapel Hill 
Section. 



Fred. W. Smith, the banker, has erected a massive square pillar of 
Italian marble, resting on a heavy sandstone base, to designate the 
burial place of his father and mother. This substantial tribute, made 
by filial affection, is in Chapel Hill Section. The father, like the son, 
was a life-long banker. He was Cashier of the Branch Planters - 
Bank, at Pulaski, and afterward at LaGrange, and later, at Memphis. 
Like James Penn, so long Cashier of the Planters Bank, he died with 
fame as unsullied as that of the Institution whose fortunes he pro- 
moted. The names of such men, and their deeds, deserve to have 
their worth attested by ever-enduring stone. 



Agnes Wyatt Tucker. — A mai-ble cross, most elaborately carved 
from the purest, whitest marble, having an exquisitely finished wreath 
twined about it, designates the grave of the charming girl whose name- 
appears above. Rustic stonework, eight feet high, constitutes the 
pediment and support of the cross, and about it, each bright day in 
spring and summer, the young and beautiful and true of Memphis are 
gathered to deck with fairest flowers this spot, almost hallowed by the 
presence of death. Death surely never found a victim more beautiful 
or more beloved. This excellent specimen of the sculptor's art is on 
lot 23, in Fowler's Section. Executed by Maydwell & Anderson. 



92 Elniwood Cemetery. 



Henry C. Walker, who was buried in New Orleans, erected here, 
over the remains of his wife, a daughter of the late John Trigg, a 
massive square pillar of Italian marble. Its summit is adorned with 
Egyptian carving, and the entablature wrought by skillful hands and 
patient toil. Above the whole rises up a beautifully finished urn. 
This monument is in Chapel Hill Section. 



J. H. "Waggener has evinced a commendable degree of originality 
in adorning his lot in Elmwood, There is nothing like the pretty 
sea-shell, carved out of marble — a gracefully -shaped vase filled with ' 
flowers sitting within it — in the Cemetery. This tribute of affec- 
tion to children sleeping beneath the sea-shell, Avhich chants forever 
a sad requiem in behalf of the young and beautiful, was happily 
conceived and artistically wrought out by the sculptor. The lot is 
well cared for. Fresh flowers often shed their fragrance about the 
■spot, and there are many who follow Central Avenue to find the sin- 
gular tribute to childhood's beauty, taste and loveliness tendered by 
J. H. Waggener. Executed by J. W. Anderson. 






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Come to the silent city, 

Enter its shadows gray ; 
On through its winding labyrinths 

Reverently, slowly stray. 
Hear the moan of the waving trees, 
List the dirge of the sighing breeze 
Tolling its myriad memories. 

Hopefully laid away. 

Dawn on the breathless city 

Heralds the coming day ; 
Floating banners of rose and snow 

Mingle with pearl and gray, 
Telling how snow-white infancy — 
Rosy flushes and beaming eye. 
Still and cold and pulseless lie. 

Tearfully laid away. 

Noon on the gleaming city 

Pours its refulgent ray, 
Flooding alike the Parian stone 

And the pauper's nameless clay ; 
Telling its tale of manhood's prime 
And maidenhood's radiant blossom time; 
Hopes and visions and dreams sublime 

Silently laid away. 

Eve o'er the shadow city ! 

Autumn winds softly play, 
Whirling the dying autumn flowers 

O'er the pulseless clay ; 
Weaving the crown the just receives. 
Telling of crowns the victor weaves. 
Purpling clusters and crimson leaves. 
Fruitful lives, with their golden sheaves 

Garnered and laid away. 

Night o'er the dreamless city 

Steals with her shadows gray ; 
Silent warders or. Heaven's heights 

Fold their white wings to pray ; 
Telling of pilgrims, travel-worn, 
Quietly laying their burdens down. 
Sinking to rest with the setting sun. 
And peacefully laid away. 



There is ita Beatb* 



BY SIR KULWER LYTTOX. 



There is no death. The stars go down 
To rise upon some fairer shore ; 

And bright in heaven's jeweled crown 
They shine for evermore. 

There is no death. The dust we tread 
Shall change beneath the summer shower 

To golden grain or mellow fruit. 
Or rainbow-tinted flower. 

The granite rocks disorganize. 
And feed the hungry moss they bear ; 

The forest leaves drink daily life 
From out the viewless air. 

There is no death. The leaves may fall 
And flowers may fade and pass away ; 

They only wait, through wintrj- hours. 
The coming of the May. 

There is no death. An angel-form 
Walks o'er the earth with silent tread, 

And bears our best-loved ones away ; 
And then we call them "dead." 

'He leaves our hearts all desolate. 

He plucks our sweetest, fairest flowers ; 
Transplanted into bliss, they now 
Adorn immortal bowers. 

The bird-like voice, whose joyous tones 
Made glad these scenes of sin and strife, 

Sings now an everlasting song 
Around the tree of life. 

■ Where'er he sees a smile too bright. 
Or heart too pure for taint and vice. 
He bears it to that world of light 
To dwell in Paradise. 

Born unto that undying life, 
They leave us but to come again ; 

With joy we welcome them — the same. 
Except in sin and pain. 

And ever near us, though unseen, 
The dear immortal spirits tread; 
'For all this boundless universe 
Is life — there are no dead. 






HON. STEPHEN ADAMS 

Was boru iu Pendleton District, South Carolina, in 1804, whence 
his parents, in 1807, migrated to Tennessee. A lawyer, in his 
twenty-sixth year he was also State Senator, representing Warren 
and Franklin counties. In 1834 he became a citizen of Aberdeen, 
Miss., and in 1837 was chosen Circuit Judge. He was re-elected, 
and served in this office till 1845, when he was elected to the 
lower house of the Federal Congress, representing the State at large. 
He withdrew, after his term of office expired, to private life, and 
practiced law most successfully and profitably. In 1851, when the 
secession movement was inaugurated in Mississippi, Judge Adams 
was the most potent and effective opponent of Quitman, Davis, 
Brown, Phelan and others, eloquent advocates of the proposed 
policy. In this contest Judge Adams was everywhere triumphant, 
and the State voted as he advised by a large majority. In the Avinter 
of 1851-2 Judge Adams was elected, in a contest with the Hon. 
Jefferson Davis, to the United States Senate, to fill the unexpired 
term of H. S. Foote, made Governor iu that year. The Senator's 
term expired in March, 1857, w'hen he made Memphis his home, only 
to die on the following 11th of May. Senator Adams boasted 
neither of scholastic attainments, nor of brilliant, striking intellectual 
qualities. His energj' was tireless, and his integrity unquestionable. 
The people gave him unlimited confidence. His siDeeches, clear, 
cogent, simple, were admirable specimens of consecutive thinking, and 
of most effective popular oratory. " He had," as was said of 
Hampden by Lord Clarendon, "a flowing courtesy to all men." No 
man could be his enemy, and few could fail to be his friend. United 
States Senator Albert Gallatin Brown said of Judge Adams, " No 
truer man, no purer patriot, no warmer friend has ever gone to that 
great city which lies beyond the tomb." 



96 Elmwood Cemetery. 



GEN. JAMES PATTON ANDERSON 

Was born in Franklin County, Tenn., February 12th, 1822. He was 
graduated in Jefferson College, Penn., in 1842; went to Kentucky, 
studied law in the office of Judge T. B. Monroe, and began the practice 
at Hernando, Miss. In 1850 he Avas elected a member of the Legisla- 
ture. In 1853 he was made Marshal of Washington Territory, and in 
the same year was married to Miss H. B. Adair, of Kentucky. He 
removed to Washington Territory, Avhence he was sent a delegate to the 
Federal Congress, in 1855. At the expiration of his term he removed 
to Florida, and represented a district of tliat State at Montgomery, Ala., 
as a member of the Confederate Provisional Congress. Soon after the 
expiration of his term, he became a Colonel, and then a Brigadier in 
the C. S. Army. Before the battle of Chickamauga he was made a 
Major-General, and on that bloody field was almost mortally wounded, 
a bullet shattering his lower jaw. He came to Memphis after the 
cessation of hostilities, and for a time conducted an agricultural paper, 
and was then made Collector of past due State taxes. In this office 
he died. His father was Col. Wm. P. Anderson, of the regular army, 
and his mother, now Mrs. Margaret L. Bybee, is a resident of Mem- 
phis. Gen. Anderson Avas endowed by nature, habit and training 
with every quality of head and heart to win and retain the confidence 
and friendship of men. He was tall and slender, lithe, active, grace- 
ful in manner and bearing, with dark skin, black eyes, and aquiline, 
well-shaped features. He was every inch a soldier, and everywhere a 
thorough gentleman. He died aged 60, September 1st, 1872. 



LIEUT. GOV. ROBERT M. ANDERSON. 

Three sons of Col. Nat Anderson served as soldiers through the 
Mexican war, Lieut. Edward M., Julius C, and Robert M. Anderson. 
The remains of these three now rest near those of the father in 
Elmwood. Robert M. Anderson, who inherited every admirable 
quality of his father, began to practice law in Memphis in 1848, and 
in 1852 became a citizen of California. He was there a prominent 
party leader, and was chosen Lieut. Governor of the State. He 
returned to Memphis in 1867, and died on his plantation in Arkansas 
in 1872, in the forty-eighth year of his age. 



BiograpJiical Sketches. 97 



MAJOR NAT. ANDERSON, 

Born in Virginia,, came to Memphis ■with his wife, the sister of 
Jacob N. Moon, in 1823. His original residence was at Big Spring, 
afterward known as "Amalbene," where his friend, General 10. P. 
Gaines, resided. It was subsequently the home of Tilman Bettis. 
The place is on the Pigeon Roost Road, two and a half miles from 
Memphis. About 1827 or 1828 Major Anderson built the first 
attractive hotel in Memphis, at the corner of Main and Winchester 
streets. T. G. Johnson was its lessee. It was called the City Hotel. 
In 1835 he w^as of the New Orleans house of Fearne, Wilcox & Co., 
afterwards of N. Anderson & Son, at Memphis, and Anderson, 
Walker & Co., Memphis, and Anderson, Carr ct Co., New Orleans. 
In 1846 he was made Quartermaster in the volunteer army engaged 
in war with Mexico, and stationed at Point Isabel. lie retired at the 
close of the war, commended for energy and skill, and his fame was 
spotless. In 1849 he made the Bias Place, nine miles southeast of 
Memphis, his home, where he resided at the date of his death. He 
served, we forgot to state, in the fight at Craney Island, and in the 
defense of Noi-folk in the war of 1812. No public enterprise in 
Memphis, while he lived, ever lacked his material aid. He was the 
first President of the old Farmers and Merchants Bank, of which 
Charles Lofland was so long Cashier. At the fireside, as a citizen, 
and in public service, he w^as deemed faultless. He w^as incapable of 
meanness, of malice or hate, and no narrow^ base passion of selfish 
greed abode in his great, generous heart. Happily for the city, which 
he did so much to serve, if successive generations of its people could 
be moulded by his example. He died March 9th, 1867, aged 
seventy-one. 



MAJOR PHIL. ALLIN. 

Major Phil. Allin left Memphis in 1861 a Lieutenant in Captain 
James H. Edmondson's Bluff City Grays. He served in this com- 
mand and capacity at Belmont and Shiloh, and in these battles, as in 
many subsequent conflicts, evinced extraordinary coolness and heroism. 
He was transferred to the cavalry service, and was one of the most 
brilliant and dashing officers whose genius for war was inspired or 
evoked by Gen. N. B. Forrest. Major Allin was a favorite officer of 
his commanding general, and when delicate trusts or daring duties 

7 



98 Ebnwood Cemetery. 



Avere to be (li.scharged, was almost constantly selected to lead tlie 
way. Never a soldier came out of the war between the States with a 
brighter escutcheon than the intrepid, generous, admirable gentleman 
and officer, Phil. Allin. He died in Memphis in 1869, about thirty 
years of age. It was no mean tribute to his worth that one of the 
swiftest and prettiest steamers on the Missi.ssippi bears the ever- 
honored name, Phil Allin. 



O. C. ATKINSON, 

Born in Virginia, came to Memphis, an ironmonger, in 1886. In 
trade he was eminently successful. His sagacity was marvelous, 
industry tireless, and habits of economy remarkable. He accumu- 
lated wealth very rapidly. In religious practices he was even more 
earnest than in pursuits of everyday life. His generosity to the poor 
and unfortunate, and to the church, was perhaps without parallel in 
Memphis. In the later years of his life he abandoned mercantile 
pursuits, and was a private banker on Front street. He died Novem- 
ber 7th, 1864, sixty-two years of age, especially esteemed and 
beloved by the Methodist Church, of which he was a devout and 
active member. 

A costly and tasteful monument, a lithographic picture of which 
appears in this volume, designates his grave in Elm wood. 



REV. D. J. ALLEN, 

Born August 24, 1808, in Charleston, S. C. ; became a Methodist in 
1829, and a citizen of Tennessee in 1836, joining the Memphis Con- 
ference in 1840. He remained with this body of Christians, save for 
a brief period spent in Camden, Arkansas, till his death. lie filled 
many important positions, and was twice a member of the General 
Conference. When his health Avas so seriously impaired that he 
could not preach, he became a school teacher. In this capacity he 
was as efiicient as in the pulpit. He served the Hernando street 
Methodist Episcopal Church during the war, and the members of this 
congregation especially revere the name, virtues, deeds and memory 
of the excellent priest and pastor. He died, after a long and tedious 
sickness, in April, 1868, asserting sublime faith in God's goodness, and 
in his own eternal blessedness. 



Biographical Sketches. 99 



SYLVESTER BAILEY 

Was born in New York, and was a citizen of Memplus about thirty 
years. He was trained for the bar, and, while his oj)inions were 
eminently trustworthy, and his mastery of his profession thorough, he 
never won or sought distinction as a barrister. Patient and laboi'ious, 
•making no pretensions to eloquence, his speeches were conversational, 
and often most effective. He served as Judge of the County Court 
through a long series of years, and, if living, would doubtless fill to-day 
the place upon which he reflected dignity and honor. He Avas con- 
nected by marriage with Judges W. B. and Thomas J. Turley. He 
^ied October, 18G4, aged sixty-five. 



WILLIAM BRINKLEY, 

Born January 10, 1791, in North Carolina. He becaiiie a INIethod- 
ist in 1811, and was ever afterward distinguished for his rigid adhesion 
to precepts illustrated by his Great Exemplar. He became a citizen 
of Madison county, Tenn., in 1834, and after residing some years 
later in Marshall county, Miss., he came to Memphis, where he died 
July, 1866, exemplifying in his death the sublimity and strength of 
simple virtues that had distinguished his faultless life. He was the 
father of Robert C. and John H. Brinkley. 



MAJOR JOHN YANCEY BAYLESS 

Was born in 1791, in Columbia county, Georgia, and educated at the 
State University at Athens, where he was associated with Wm. C. 
Dawson, David E. Twiggs, Wm. L. Yancey, George N. Sanders, 
Tom and Howell Cgbb, and others, afterwards fomous. He came to 
Tennessee in 1833, and was a rich and successful cotton planter at 
.Stanton. He became a citizen and merchant of Memphis and of New 
Orleans in 1835. The Memphis firm was Bayless, Gholson & Hart, 
and Reynolds, Byrne & Co., of New Orleans. Those were disastrous 
commercial years from 1837 to 1842. Major Bajless, in 1843, 
returned to Memphis, where he died in 1863. He was an original 
member and founder of the First Baptist Church of Memphis, and 
assisted in the organization of the first Odd Fellows' Lodge that ever 
existed in this city. The ApjJeal, published in Jackson, Miss., in 



lOO Elmwood Cemetery. 



1863, Avhen Col. Bayless died, said of him, that "ripe in years,, 
beloved of his family, admired of his friends, and respected and 
esteemed by the community, he reached the end of his pilgrimage." 
Not far away from the father sleeps Jennie E., the excellent daughter 
of Mr. Bayless, and the late wife of J. C. Davis. The strength of 
the undying attachment of surviving members of this family to 
those that repose in graves ever freshly decorated with flowers, attests- 
the worth of the dead, and generous, lasting affection of the living. 



ENOCH AND JAMES BANKS. 

These two brothers came to Memphis more than thirty years ago- 
from Pennsylvania. A tribute to honest worth is due their stainless 
fame, and yet we only know that they lived long and useful lives, 
without fear and above reproach. James Banks was once a member 
of the Legislature of Tennessee, representing Henderson county. 
Enoch Banks was born January, 1793, and died aged 59. He was 
twenty-four years a citizen of Memphis, and mayor in 1836, 1838,. 
and in 1847. James Banks died December, 1872, aged 76 years. 



COL. S. P. BANKHEAD, 

A son of Gen. Bankhead of the regular army, and nephew of Gen,. 
Magruder, was born, reared and educated in Virginia. He served as 
a staff-officer in the Mexican war, and afterwards crossed the plains 
to California. He came to Memphis about the year 1851 or '52, and 
in 1853-4 conducted the Whig, a daily newspaper, most skillfully. 
Having disposed of this property, he became a very successful lawyer, 
and for several years was city attorney. During his term of office he 
made an excellent codification of the City Ordinances. He served 
through the war between the States, always commanding artillery 
companies, and in this branch of the service won the rank, we believe, 
of Brigadier-General. He was in many battles, and his conduct 
was always commended for skill and courage. He returned to Mem- 
phis in 1865, and two years afterward was brutally assassinated in 
Memphis at the corner of Washington and Main streets. The identity 
of the assassin has never been fixed. Gen. Bankhead died March, 
1867, aged 43 years. 



Biographical Sketches. loi 



REV. FRANCIS H. BOWMAN, 

Born ill Charlottesville, Va., in 1833; was the son of Thomas Bow- 
man, D. D., and nephew of John H. Rice, D. D. The father was 
pastor of the Presbyterian church at Greensboro, Ga., when the son, 
in his fourteenth year, became a church member. He was prepared 
for college by Sam Scudder, known of all educated youths of that 
-day in Georgia. Young Bowman was graduated by Oglethorpe 
University, and in his nineteenth year was a school-teacher at Mt. 
Zion Academy. He then spent two years at the University of Vir- 
ginia, where he studied ancient literature and languages, and meta" 
physics. He was graduated by the several schools of the University, 
and afterward devoted a year to the study of theology at Princeton. 
He began his brilliant career as a preacher at Midway, Ga., and was 
soon chosen pastor of the church at Greensboro, Ala. He served this 
and the church at Augusta, Ga., till 1868, when he came to Memphis 
where he discharged the duties of a devout, learned, laborious and 
eloquent pastor till the 6th of October, 1873, when he fell a victim to 
the terrible plague of that year. He died as he had lived — faithful 
to man and God ; fearless, unselfish, heroic, self-sacrificing to the end. 

AUGUSTE BERTON, 

Born in 1837, at Niederbrunn, Alsace, France ; emigrated to 
America, and became a resident of Philadelphia in 1853. Thence he 
removed to St. Louis, and remaining there a few years, came to 
Memphis in 1862. One of the most energetic, active, and successful 
of the foreign-born citizens of Memphis, he was most generous to the 
poor. Of pleasing address, and tireless industry, he became a most 
popular tradesman, even as he was highly esteemed in social life. He 
died of yellow fever in 1873. 

GEN. THOS. H. BRADLEY, 

Born in Williamson County, Tenn., July 25th, 1808; was a leading 
merchant of Franklin. In 1842 he became a citizen of Crittenden 
County, Arkansas. He was made a Brigadier General in the Con- 
federate army, but his age and physical infirmities prevented very 
ractive participation in campaigns that followed his appointment to 
•office. He was modest, honest, frank, generous, and had countless 
friends. He died September, 1864. 



I02 Elmwood Cemetery. 



FRED. BAXTER 

Was born on classic ground. He first saw the light in Quincy, Mass.,- 
the abiding place of the immortal Adams family. He came to 
Memphis about thirty years ago, and was for a time a successful- 
tradesman. Especially was he famous as Chief of Fire Companies, 
He lived that he might live, and enjoyed keenly the good things of 
this life. His ruddy face, and merry eyes, and rotund person, were- 
ever seen where convivial pleasures lent swiftness to flying hours. He 
was of capital good sense, made excellent dinner-table speeches, and", 
was eminently popular. He died in 1865, aged forty-four years. 



WALTER BETTIS, 

A grandson of Tilman Bettis, a famous pioneer, and one of the first- 
white men to fix his home in Shelby county, was for a long period in 
the clerical service of Elmwood Association. At the time of his- 
death, though only seventeen years of age, the youth had long illus- 
trated in his words and conduct the virtues of his fathers. He inher- 
ited courage, honesty, manly worth and a strong intellect, and was 
rapidly acquiring knoAvledge of men and books. His industry was 
tireless and his hourly conduct that of an upright gentleman. His- 
usefulness was already developed in his devotion to the cause of tem- 
perance. Of an organization, devoted to the promotion of this virtuejr 
Mr. Bettis was an active, earnest member. Just prior to his death he 
had written an address to be delivered before this association. The 
paper, prepared with care and taste and with unusual ability for one 
of his years, is now before us. He fell a victim to the plague that 
desolated Memphis in the fall of 1873, and Avas buried Avith distin- 
guished honors in October of that year, in Elmwood, by the temper- 
ance societies of Memphis. 



JOHN H. BOWEN 

Was, we believe, a Tennesseean by birth. He came to Memphis 
perhaps thirty years ago, and was of the mercantile firm of Bowen <fc 
Armour. He served the city in after years as a faithful Tax-Collec- 
tor, and died May, 1872, aged fifty-four years. 



Biographical Sketches. 103 

DR. W. C. BRYANT. 

The most skillful dentist of his day in jMeniphis. He was distin- 
guished for his thorough mastery of his profession, and for his 
extraordinary genius in mechanical art. Not less remarkable was his 
gracefulness of action, and of form and features. Twenty years ago 
Dr. Bryant avus the most tastefully-dressed gentleman on the streets of 
Memphis, and elegance of apparel became his attractive face and 
lithe body. His temper was quick, and he was often involved in 
quarrels. He was generous, impulsive, and fearless — such was he as 
a soldier. He commanded a light battery during the war, and 
was often distinguished by personal heroism. He died soon after 
the cessation of hostilities, and rests in Elmwood. Lincoln county, 
in this State, was, we believe, his birthplace. He died Angust 
21st, 1866, aged fifty-one. 



WADE H. BOLTON, 

Of an old North Carolina family, came to this district of Tennessee at 
an early date after its first settlement by white people. In a feud 
between two neighboring families, that of Mr. Bolton was almost 
exterminated, he himself having fallen in a personal renconter. Of 
this it is needless for us to speak. His death was the more talked 
about since he bequeathed 610,000 to the widow of Stonewall Jackson. 
A remarkable monument, under the provisions of his will, was erected 
over his grave. A photograph of the life-like statue finds a place in 
this volume. If the name of the family do not survive, the memory 
of Wade H. Bolton will not perish till Parian stone dissolves. 



WM. A. BLYTHE, 

Was born in Sumner County, Tennessee, about the year 1823. He 
came to Memphis in 1840, and was a partner through a long series of 
years of the famous E. M. Yerger. He was Yerger's counterpart — 
like him in nothing save that he was an honest, generous gentleman. 
He rarely entered the court-room, but did everything else needful to 
make his partner successful. He gathered the law and the facts, and 
managed the finances of the prosperous firm. Mr. Blythe was uni- 
versally beloved. He Avas modest, amiable, full of good humor, and 
never spoke unkindly of people. He died hdlo Jiagrante, January 
24th, 1864. 



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ED. A. BEECHER 

Was born, we believe, in Western New York ; a nephew of the won- 
derful preacher of Brooklyn. He shared the intellectual strength of 
the family of which he was a member, and even in early youth 
was distinguished for his skill as a debater and for extraordinary logi- 
cal acumen. He read law in this city with Hon. Henry G. Smith 
and James Wickersham, and immediately after his accession to the 
bar assumed a position among the foremost of his professional asso- 
ciates. He entered the service of the Confederate States in 1861, and 
was the most famous and skillful of Quartermasters. At the close of 
the war he resumed in Memphis the practice of his profession ; but 
death came, and the brilliant lawyer, boon companion, and acute, 
adroit logician, died in January, 1873, in the 39th year of his age. 



GERALDUS BUNTYN 

AVas wont to exhibit to his friends a warrant for 160 acres of public 
laud issued to him by the Federal Government for his services as a 
soldier in the war of 1812-15. He was one of the founders of the 
First Baptist Church of this city, a model farmer and most successful 
in money-making, having left a large estate to his children. He was 
born with the century, in North Carolina, and died July, 1865, of 
anxieties, like countless old men of the South, begotten by the war 
between the States. He was sixty-five years of age at the time of 
his death. 



R. B. BERRY. 

This excellent gentleman and skillful physician came to Memphis in 
1850 from Kentucky. He soon won a profitable practice, and was 
rapidly gaining popular favor when he fell a victim of yellow fever in 
1855. His son, during the same summer, while serving, as a volun- 
teer nurse, the sick and dying at Norfolk, Va., where yellow fever 
raged, also became its victim. Dr. Berry's wife was the first person 
interred in Elmwood, July 15, 1853. For this reason the original 
proprietors of the Cemetery caused an inscription on marble to recite 
the fact, and the story is told above her last resting-place. 



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REV. D. E. BURNS 

Was born in Kentucky in 1823, but spent the earlier years of his life 
near Evansville, Indiana. An orphan, and without property, he was 
self-educated, and when sixteen years of age devoted himself to the 
service of his Divine Master. When only nineteen years of age, he 
was pastor of the Baptist Church, at Hardinsburg, Ky. He served 
the churches at Russelville and at Paducah most successfully. In 
1850 he succeeded Rev. Dr. Gale as pastor of the Beal street Baptist 
Church, in Memphis. His fine declamation, and ornate, tasteful 
sermons, full of passion and poetry, drew delighted audiences. He 
was then a very boy in appearance, and never was there such a 
contrast presented by two men filling, each, a pulpit in a Baptist 
Church at the same time, in the same city, as that discovered in Dr. 
Finley of the First, and Burns of the Second Baptist Church. Finley 
was very old ; not less than three-quarters of a century had taught him 
lessons of profoundest philosophy. He was a natural logician. His 
sentences were short, crisp, compact, full of significance, and such Avas 
their sententious force, and fullness of wisdom, that his most solemn 
discourses were studded with the sharpest witticisms. There were 
never two servants of God more unlike in modes of thinking or 
expression than Dr. Finley and Mr. Burns. To hear and see the one 
made the peculiarities and mannerism of the other especially delight- 
ful ; and if Dr. Burns had no superior as a declaimer. Dr. Finley 
never had an equal as an original thinker and acute logician in any 
pulpit in these States. Dr. Burns remained two years in Memphis 
and went to Jackson, jMiss., where he won even greater reputation as 
an orator than he had achieved in Memphis. When the war closed 
he was called to the charge of the Colliseum Baptist Church, New 
Orleans, where he labored very successfully for over two years, and 
about the month of June, 1867, he received and accepted a call to the 
pastorate of the First Baptist Church in Memphis. During his 
pastorate he greatly endeared himself to his congregation, and was 
much beloved by the great body of the j^eople. It is stated that when 
dying, November 22d, 1870, Dr. Burns grasped the hand of his 
friend and co-laborer in the church, Dr. Ford, and said, " I have 
trusted in Christ for thirty years, and my faith is now unshaken.' 
His spirit gently passed away to the (Jod who gave it, amid the 
prayers and tears of friends and relatives who were gathered about his 
bedside. 



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ZEBULON PIKE BOWLES, 

Through a long series of years a successful cotton broker, in Mem- 
phis, rests beneath a beautiful monument in Elmwood, of which a 
perfect representation adorns a page in this volume. Mr. Bowles died 
in August, 1870, in the fiftieth year of his age. 



GEN. JAMES A. CARNES 

Was one of the most enterprising, energetic gentlemen that ever pro- 
moted the fortunes of JNIemphis. In this he was quite the equal of 
his brother-in-law, Sam Tate. He was made Major General of the 
State militia in the first year of the late war, and was eminently use- 
ful in evoking the whole military stieugth of the country. He died 
during the war in Georgia, about fifty years of age. His remains 
were transferred to Elmwood. 



T. CHAMBLISS, 

A Virginian, came to this city many years ago. He was an original 
stockholder in Elmwood, and an intelligent, public-spirited citizen. 
He died in October, 1854, in the forty-fourth year of his age. 



ELIJAH CHEEK, 

A Virginian, born iu 1798, came to Memphis in 1848. He was dis- 
tinguislied for his extraordinary energy, shrewdness and boldness in 
his bu-iiness transactions. One of the most enterprising citizens of 
Memphis, he invested liberally in every work designed to promote the 
public good, never failing to give most generously to the Church. He 
established in 1851-2 a ferry from Memphis to Mound City, five miles 
above Memphis, in Arkansas, and was involved in interminable litiga 
tion with the original riparian proprietors. He built a plank road from 
Mound City to Marion, Arkansas, and at the same time was most 
zealous and successful in establishing a cotton mill (afterward de- 
stroyed by fire,) of 6,000 spindles in Memphis. He built and owned 
the old grist mills on Poplar street, and led a life of tireless activity. 
During the war he was strongly commended to President Lincoln as a 
proper person to serve as provisional Governor of Arkansas. He died 
in 1863, in the 65th year of his age. 



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GEN. WM. H. CARROLL, 

The son of Governor Carroll, of this State — in whose behalf the 
Constitution of Tennessee was changed that he might not be re-elected 
forever — came to Memphis about the year 1848. He was a banker 
and broker in 1849, and for some years thereafter. He was for a long 
time Postmaster at Memphis, and was, we believe, a member of the' 
State Convention of Tennessee in 1861, and though an ardent 
adherent of Stephen A. Douglas, was made a Brigadier General in th& 
Confederate army. He served for a time in East Tennessee, and 
incurred, as was supposed, the special condemnation of Union men of 
that district. He therefore remained in Canada after the cessation of 

hostilities, and died there in the year . His remains were 

brought to Memphis, and followed to Elmwood by a great concourse 
of our citizens. He commanded a brigade, and was distinguished for 
his coolness and courage in the battle of Fishing Creek. 

Thomas B., a brother of Gen. Wm. H. Carroll, was a most popular 
Mayor of Memphis. He died in the meridian of his strength, useful- 
ness, and popularity, in April, 1857. 



JOHN S. CLAYTON, 

Of the famous family from Delaware, was born, we believe, in Vir- 
ginia. He bought the Garrett estate, formerly owned by Mr. 
Rodgers, and at an earlier period by Mayor Hickman, four miles east 
from Memphis, on the Germantown road. Mr. Clayton was a cotton 
planter in the lowlands, and prior to the war between the States 
accumulated wealth very rapidly. He was an honest, upright citizen, 
famed for his generous hospitality, and the attractiveness of his home. 
He died in February, 1872, aged fifty-nine. 

CALVIN W. CHERRY 

"Was first a merchant in Cherryville, Tenn., and afterwards in New 
Orleans, having a branch house in Memphis. In 1853 he became a 
banker in the latter city, and, as in mercantile avocations, was emi- 
nently fortunate. Mr. Cherry had a massive head, a clear, strong 
intellect, and was probably the most successful business man of his- 
time in Memphis. His personal fame was as unsullied as his success 
in life was brilliant. He was born in Wilson County, Tenn., in 1821^ 
and died here in 1861. 



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DAVID M. CURRIN, 

Born in Murfreesboro in 1819, was graduated by the Nashville 
University at the age of seventeen. He read law in Return J. Meigs' 
office, and was at twenty-one a Democratic candidate for the Legisla- 
ture. Defeated, he still won much distinction as a popular speaker, 
and was made district elector on Mr. Polk's ticket in 1843-4, and five 
years afterward came to Memphis. Here his career was eminently 
distinguished. He was, however, too much a politician to be first as a 
lawyer. He served several terms in the State Legislature, and was 
once or twice a candidate for the Federal Congress. He was twice a 
member of the Confederate Congress, and died near Richmond, Va., 
whither he had gone to serve the Memphis district, March 25th, 
1864. Mr. Currin was distinguished for quickness and acuteness of 
perception, for his ready wit, and as a successful satirist. He was 
devoted to books, and often spoke with a degree of perfect tasteful- 
ness and simple elegance that was absolutely charming. He pro- 
nounced in Richmond a funereal eulogium upon a member of the Con- 
federate Congress from Missouri, which was conceded to have been 
the most admirable speech, as a mere question of literary taste, deliv- 
ered during the session. If Democracy survive, it should build a 
mausoleum where David M. Currin reposes. He devoted genius, toil, 
and the best years of his life to the service of this party. He Avas 
fearless, truthful, earnest and indefatigable ; a cogent reasoner, and 
one of the best stump speakers of his time. 

FRANCIS T. COCHRAN. 

Born in Abingdon, Va. ; came to Memphis more than twenty years 
ago. With his brother, M. E. Cochran, he was a lumber merchant 
and most successfully engaged in this pursuit till the North and South 
parted. He enlisted, and served bravely and well as a soldier under 
Gen. Forrest; and in camp, on the march, or battlefield, always 
discharged his duty faithfully and heroically. He became a farmer 
after the cessation of hostilities, and in this avocation was as persist- 
ently'' industrious as when a lumber dealer. His farm was the best 
tilled in the country, and his crops most abundant. The sod of 
Elmwood never hid ft-om mortal eyes a truer, braver, nobler gentle- 
man than F. T. Cochran. He may well rest sweetly after life's fitful 
fever. He died on his farm in Crittenden county. Ark., in 1872, 
forty-five years of age. 



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M. E. COCHRAN. 

A native of Virginia ; born and reared near Abingdon. He came 
to Tennessee about tbirty years ago, first having his home near Ger- 
mantown, in Shelby county. He soon afterwards became a resident 
of Memphis, and was one of the most successful business men, and 
most highly-esteemed citizens of the place. He was a lumber dealer 
and manufacturer, and at the close of his life, in May of 1873, 
conducted a most extensive and profitable business. He was a 
director in banks and insurance comj^anies, a devout Methodist, and 
as thoroughly-beloved by those who knew him well as he was esteemed 
by the whole population of the city. No more honest, truthful, 
generous gentleman rests in Elmwood than M. E. Cochran. He was 
fifty-two years old. 



DAVIS COCKRELL. 

A South Carolinian by birth, was, for many years, a citizen of 
Columbus, Miss. He came to Memphis about thirty years ago, and 
managed most skillfully and owned the costliest livery stables. In 
1851 or 1852 he became proprietor of the Commercial Hotel, and 
made money rapidly. He leased the Gayoso House, and furnished it 
in splendor. When his term expired, he caused to be constructed, 
and took charge of, the Peabody Hotel. He managed this famous 
institution, giving it great popularity, until his health failed, and 
death Avas at hand. He then went to his home in the suburbs, where 
he died in February, 1872, in the sixty-second year of his age. He 
was fearless and generous, and devoted to his friends. 



JAMES T. CRAWFORD. 

Born in 1796, in South Carolina; became in early life a citizen of 
Middle Tennessee. He entered military service in his early youth, 
accompanied Gen. Jackson in his campaigns against the Indians, and 
was a participant in the battle of New Orleans. It is said, in com- 
mendation of his unsullied character, that he never held a public 
office, and never betrayed a private trust. He became a citizen of 
Memphis in 1849, and died here in February, 1863, honored for his 
personal virtues and venerated for his age. 



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JOSEPH COOPER 

Was a curious character, and the most remarkable business man of 
iis day in IMeniphis. He was born in the last years of the last cen. 
tury, in Petersburg, Va. We have heard of him that he was originally 
•a bar-tender, and that, having drawn .$20,000 in a lottery, he imme- 
diately abandoned Petersburg, came to Memphis, and nevermore 
would he invest in lotteries. He bought cotton at about four cents on 
one occasion, and sold at ten and twelve cents, and never again would 
speculate in this commodity. He said that its value was too uncertain, 
and affected by too many causes, which no one could number or an- 
ticipate. He was a money-lender, and succeeded in accumulating 
great wealth. He was never married, and his j^ersonal idiosyncrasies 
were as numerous as his fortunes were wonderful. He died in March, 
1852, aged fifty -eight, having been blind many years. His brother, 
George P. Cooper, inherited the estate, which he constantly augmented 
by shrewdness, economy and capital good sense. He died March, 
1858, aged sixtv-four. 



MAJOR A. J. DONELSON. 

It is hardly necessary to devote a few paragraphs to the delineation 
■of the character, or recital of incidents in the history of a man who, 
for thirty years or longer, occupied so prominent a position in the eyes 
of his countrymen. His lifelong intimate relations with President 
Jackson, his distinguished editorial career in Washington, his tenure 
of the office of Minister at St. Petersburg, and candidature for the 
Vice-Presidency on the Fillmore ticket, beaten by Buchanan and 
Breckenridge, are facts that will hardly be forgotten. Major Donel- 
son spent ^much time on his plantation below this city, and made 
Memphis his home. Personally and socially, there was never a gentle- 
man more universally esteemed and beloved. He was especially de- 
lightful in his intercourse with young men. He recited anecdotes and 
incidents in the lives of distinguished persons, with whom he was long 
and intimately associated, with infinite zest, and discussed the political 
issues of his time with rare volubility and good humor. His son John 
fell on the field of Chickamauga. The father never recovered from the 
terrible shock. There was not a truer, nobler youth, or one of rarer 
virtues and intelligence, in Confederate armies. Major Donelson 
■died at the Peabody Hotel, in Memphis, in 1871, aged seventy-two 
years. 



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C. A. DAVIS, D. U., 

Was born in Hardin county, Tenn., March 8th, 1825. His family, 
when he was very young, resided for a time in St. Louis, and after- 
wards in Phitte county, Missouri, where, in 1847, he was ordained a 
Cumberland Presbyterian minister. He was pastor of the church at 
Lexington, Missouri, for some years. Thence he came to Memphis in 
1859, and took charge of the First Cumberland Presbyterian Church 
of this city. He died in this service of yellow fever, October, 1867, 
in the forty-second year of his age. Through his exertions and 
influence, the excellent edifice, dedicated to the Most High, was 
erected by the Cumberland Presbyterians on Court, between Second 
and Third streets. He was an original thinker, of indomitable, 
tireless energy, a laborious, faithful pastor, beloved and admired by 
his Church and the people. 



MAJOR WM. T. DRIVER AND 
COL. WM. R. HUNT. 

Major Wm. T. Diiver, born in Pontotoc county. Miss., June loth, 
1840, was killed on the battlefield at Jonesboro, Georgia, August 31, 
1864, at the very instant, and perhaps by the same missile by which 
Gen. AV. B. Bate was dangerously Avounded. Major Driver was of 
the first soldiers that left Memphis for the scene of war in Virginia in 
1861. He participated in perhaps as many battles as any Southern 
soldier, and one more fearless never braved and defied danger. He 
was the only son of the late Eli M. Driver, and brother-in-law of Col. 
Wm. R. Hunt, known throughout the Gulf States in 1863-4 as the 
skillful and energetic Confederate Chief of the Ordnance and Niter 
and Mining Bureau in Alabama. Col. Hunt died in Memphis in 
1873, about fifty years of age. 



B. F. DILL 

Was born and reared, we believe, at Augusta, Georgia. For some 
years he was a citizen of Oxford, Miss. About 1855 he bought a 
share of the Ajrpeal, conducted and owned from that time till the 
close of the war by J. R. McClanahan and himself. He revived the 
paper in Memphis, after the cessation of hostilities, but did not long 
survive his partner, McClanahan, both dying soon after their return 
to this city, Mr. Dill's deatli occurring in January, 1866. 



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■ FRANK DOMINICO 

Was born in Saxony, Altenburg, in 1827, and educated mainly at Wei- 
mar, but spent some time at the University of Jena. His innate 
skepticism defeated his parents' purposes, and he never Ijecame a 
churchman. The students of his literary society ^vere prime movers 
in the revolution of 1848. Dominico was denounced as a leader, and 
a price set upon his head. He escaped to Switzerland, and thence to 
America. Near Philadelphia he toiled as farmer's " help," that he 
might master the language of the country. Meanwhile the Smith- 
sonian Institute, made cognizant of his virtues and attainments, em- 
ployed him to sketch the flora of Mexico. He discharged the task 
most successfully, was robbed on his way home, and became a penni- 
less pedagogue in Louisiana. Acquiring a share of wealth, he pur- 
chased a farm near Lexington, Mo., and was discovered there by the 
" rebellion," a revolutionist in all his instincts. He became a Confed- 
erate soldier, winning the unlimited confidence of Gen. Price, and in 
his secret service was arrested within the Federal lines, and condemned 
to death as a spy. His execution was to occur the morning after his 
condemnation. At night he asked for materials that he might write a 
letter. A Federal surgeon gave what he sought, and, scanning his 
features closely, inquired: "Are you Frank Dominico?" "Yes," 
answered Frank, and, looking up, recognized a classmate and member 

of the German Revolutionary Club of 1848. The Doctor R r at 

once effected Dominico's escape. He went to Pittsburg, taught music, 
drawing and the German, and came to Memphis, where the accom- 
plished gentleman resorted to the same avocations. His courageous 
spirit failed him, and disappointment and toil paralyzed his energies. 
He died August 19th, 1870, in the forty-third year of his age. 



DR. DUDLEY DUNN, 

Who was born in Oglethorpe county, Georgia, came to Memjohis more 
than forty years ago. He acquired wealth, and at the time of his 
death, January 14th, 1848, owned a most valuable estate in the 
suburbs of Memphis. He was deemed an excellent citizen, even as he 
was a thorough master of his profession. At the time of his death he 
was sixty -seven years of age. 



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HON. WM. C. DUNLAP 

Was one of many cliildren whose parents were citizens of Eastern 
Tennessee long before a State government was organized. He was 
born at Knoxville, February 25, 1798, and was a twin-brother of the 
late Gen. Hugh W. Dunlap, of New Orleans. The brothers were 
educated at Marysville, a seat of learning made famous by the skill, 
as an instructor, of Rev. Dr. Anderson. Judge Dunlap began to 
practice law in Eastern Tennessee, but in 1828 became a partner, at 
Bolivar, in this State, of the late Hon. Roger Barton. He served 
often in both branches of the State Legislature, and two terms in the 
Federal Congress. For a series of years he was Circuit Judge of this 
district, as then constituted. He was never married, but for all that 
there was never a gentleman of kindlier impulses, of warmer, stronger 
affections, of sensibilities more tender, or of a nature more generous. 
Every moral quality calculated to send his name most loudly down 
the stream of the world's babbling voices, adorned his character. 
In habits of dress and of thinking, essentially a man of the people, 
his personal popularity was boundless, even as his personal fame was 
stainless. He was not an orator, but never spoke unwisely, and his 
instincts were infallible, never failing to discover or anticipate the 
course of public prejudices and opinions. His speeches were emi- 
nently practical, and ever delighted the multitude. He died a devout 
Methodist, Nov. 16, 1872, and if a useful and honorable private life 
give brightness to the life to come, none need have wept when Judge 
Dunlap was no more. 



DECATUR J. DOYLE 

"Was the son of a distinguished surgeon, the family physician of 
Andrew Jackson thi'ough a series of years when a citizen of Nashville. 
The son, of whom we speak, was born in Memphis, and when too 
young to become a soldier was a volunteer with Gen. Forrest through 
the three last years of the war between the States. While in this 
service he was severely wounded in the body, and, never recovering 
from the effects of the injury, died in Memphis January 31st, 1874, 
about twenty-eight years of age. He was greatly beloved by his 
comrades in arms, and no young gentleman has died in Memphis 
whose untimely fate was more deeply deplored. 



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CAPT. ANDREW J. EDMONDSON, 

Born in Davidson county, Tennessee, in 1793, was the first child in- 
Middle Tennessee, or elsewhere, perhaps, named in honor of Andrew 
Jackson, then a Circuit Judge, He followed the future President in 
all his campaigns against Indians and British, and was in nearly every 
battle in which Gen. Jackson led American troops. His father was 
one of the heroes of King's Mountain. In ] 820 he became a citizett 
of Limestone county, Alabama, where he was often made sheriflT. Itt 
1834 he removed to Pontotoc, Mississippi, and Avas Register and 
Receiver of Public Monies for the United States. He was afterward 
Clerk in Chancery at Holly Springs. He removed to Shelby county^ 
Tennessee, in 1860, and died here April 30th, 1872. He was fearless,, 
modest, of unimpeachable integrity, with an intellect strong and 
active. He was generous to a fault, and ever distinguished by the 
graces that adorn the conduct and character of a true Mason and 
devout Christian. 



LEONIDAS HOOPER ELLIOTT, 

In May, 1861, enlisted in the Senior Company E, One Hundred and' 
Fifty-fourth Tennessee Regiment, and was in all the great battles- 
fought by the Army of Tennessee. He was wounded six times, and 
twice on the 30th of November, 1864, on the bloody field of Franklin^ 
Tenn. He died of these wounds at Columbus, Miss., February 12th, 
1865, in the twenty-fifth year of his age, and his remains were 
brought to Elmwood. He was a grandson of the venerable school- 
teacher, Mrs. K. Hays, still living in the suburbs of Memphis. 



CEYLON B. FRAZER 

Was for many years a prominent member of the jNIemphis bar. He- 
Avas distinguished for his imperturbable good humor and personal 
popularity, facts which gave him great influence with the multitude^ 
He was a vehement speaker, and rather a successful declaimer than a 
logician. He died, universally regretted, in the vigor of his manhood,, 
in March, 1858, about forty years of age. 



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DR. ROBERT J. FREEMAN, 

Born in Xorfolk, Va., 1837, fell a victim of tlie terrible plague, Oct. 
22d, 1873, that desolated Memphis. Of a populaticm not exceeding 
thirty thouH^and, left by all-pervading terror in the city, nearly two 
thousand were swept away. Dr. Freeman, during the prevalence of 
this frightful epidemic, was Secretary of the Board of Health, and 
filled with distinguished honor this most responsible position, and with 
tireless assiduity discharged every task assigned him. He spared 
neither strength, nor toil, nor money to alleviate the sufferings of the 
plague-stricken and unfortunate. By his promptness, skill and attain- 
ments he rapidly won popular confidence. As a young surgeon he had 
entered the army of the United States in July, 1859, abandoning the 
position to occupy it in the Confederate navy in 1861. He served in 
this capacity through the war. His body rests in Elmwood, lot No. 8, 
South Grove Section, and a tasteful monument, I'eared by his mother, 
who came from Baltimore to tender this tribute of affection to her 
honored son, distinguishes his grave. 



FOWLKES. 

Four gentlemen by this name filled, at one time, prominent places 
in the eyes of Memphis. Perhaps the most remarkable of these was 
Dr. Jeptha Fowlkes, who came to Memphis nearly forty years 
ago. He was a regularly-educated physician, but did not, we 
believe, practice his profession in this city. In 1849-50 he edited 
a vigorous newspaper known as Foxvlkes^ Herald, and in 1861-2-3 
conducted the Avalanche) at one time, we believe associated with 
Dr. Sam Bard. He was of those who gave origin to the Southern 
Pacific Koad, locating it. in 1858, on the line of the thirty-fifth 
parallel of latitude. He had boundless faith in the coming 
greatness and wealth of Ai-kansas, and invested there much of 
his Avealth. He died in January, 1864. He was fearless, impulsive, 
devoted to his friends, and violent in assaults upon his enemies, 
and therefore the popularity of his newspapers. Pat. H. Fowlkes 
was a kinsman of the Doctor, and deemed the ripest scholar of 
his age in Memphis. He was, too, an excellent lawyer. He edited 
the Appeal at different times when Van Pelt & McClanahan were 
its conductors, and was still a very young man at the time of his 
death, about 1856, Austin Fowlkes was a quiet, laborious, honest 



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merchant, as was Sterling ; of these two, Austin was the brother and 
Sterling the cousin of. Dr. Jeptha Fowlkes. Sterling and Austin 
were alike distinguished for probity and sterling integrity. They 
bent neither in the presence of adversity nor of prosperity, and were 
ever the same honest, truthful, industrious merchants. Austin died 
April, 1859, and Sterling in November, 1872, aged sixty-nine. The 
family were Virginians. 

Capt. Sterling Fowlkes, the son of the gentleman of the same 
name, of whom Ave tell above, was born in Memphis, educated in 
Virginia, but trained as a merchant from his early youth. Though 
very young when war came, he was already the head of a successful 
firm of cotton brokers. He sex-ved in the Confederate army with 
distinction, and was promoted from the ranks to a captaincy, to fall in 
the forefront of battle at Perryville. He was not more than twenty- 
five years of age at the date of his death. 



JAMES B. FERGUSON, 

A famous maitre d'hotel of his time, born in Belfast, Ireland, was first 
^' mine host" at Brownsville, and afterwards leigned in the old Nash- 
"ville Inn for thirty years, where Benton and Andrew Jackson had an 
almost deadly encounter, leaving a bullet in the ceiling to attest their 
fury. Mr. Ferguson came to Memphis in 1849, and for two years was 
the lessee of the Gayoso House. He was eminently popular, most 
pleasing in address, and entertaining in conversation. Moreover, 
lie was ever deemed an honest, upright gentleman. He died in 1851, 
in the sixty-second year of his age. 



JOHN FRICK, 

Born in 1821 at Wurtemberg, Germany, came to Memphis in 1850. 
He was a skillful carpenter, and highly esteemed, not only for his 
perfect mastery of his vocation, but for his trustworthiness and 
fidelity to tasks assumed. Of recent years he was an Insurance 
Agent, and especially skilled in adjusting fire losses. He died of the 
plague, October 13th, 1873. 



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NEWTON FORD, 

Born in Cumberland county, Va., in 1811, was of a family of faultless 
fame in the Old Dominion. In early manhood he was a merchant at 
Huntsville, Ala., but, removing to Shelby county, Tennessee, in 1842, 
was here devoted to agricultural pursuits. He became a merchant in 
Memphis in 1849, and for twenty-four years was identified Avith each 
great work of public or private beneficence which has blest the city. 
His purity of character was never impeached, and his perfect integ- 
rity never questioned. He was modest in demeanor, plain in apparel, 
always vivacious, kindly and generous. He was content to lead the 
quiet life of a toiling, successful merchant, and spend his leisure hours 
as a huntsman in the wilds of Arkansas or lowlands of the Tennessee. 
He was never a candidate for place, or an office-holder, and died, hon- 
ored of all men, November 2d, 1873. 



GEORGE W. FISHER. 

The sharp, aquiline features of George W. Fisher, as he went 
industriously about the streets discharging a sheriff's functions 
through a series of years in Memphis, will long be remembered. He 
was an honest, and just, and generous old gentleman, as universally 
esteemed as he was widely known. He was born in Lancaster county, 
Pennsylvania, March 21st, ISOl, became a citizen of North Carolina 
in 1814, was married in 1823, removed to Cottonport, on the Ten- 
nessee river, and in 1834 became a citizen of Fayette county, which 
he twice represented in the Legislature. He became a citizen of 
Shelby county in 1848, and represented this and Fayette county in the 
State Senate. He was City Recorder, and for seven years a Deputy 
Sherifl\, a position he filled till his death, November 20th, 1866. 



COL. JOHN W. FOWLER, 

One of the original founders and projectors of Elmwood Cemetery, 
was born in Wake county, North Carolina, in 1805. He came to 
Memphis in 1830, and through forty years was an honored and most 
useful citizen. For a period of eight years he was Sheriff' of Shelby 
county, and ever deemed a model public officer. He was distinguished 
for his probity, energy and excellent good sense. He died January 
12th, 1870, and sleeps in a Section of Elmwood named in his honor. 
A picture of his granite monument finds a place in this volume. 



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W. D. FERGUSON, 

Boru in Giles county, Tennessee, about the year 1785, came first to 
Memphis in 1813. He was then employed as Surveyor. A few 
Indian huts at that time marked the spot where Memphis stands. At 
a later period Mr. Ferguson, through many years, was a citizen of 
Arkansas. He was not only a farmer, but an Indian fighter, and 
owned a woodyard on the Mississippi, known as Greenock, about four- 
teen miles above Mem})his. He was of wonderful physical strength 
and activity. There was not a warrior of the Chickasaws or Quapaws 
of greater strength or fleetness than Mr. Ferguson, commonly known 
among the red men as AVappanockee, an appellation having reference, 
it is said, to the extraordinary length of ]Mr. Ferguson's tracks. 
While owner of the Arkansas woodyard, in the early years of the 
current century, one Abx-aham Lincoln, who had drifted down to New 
Orleans on a flatlioat, sojourned for some time, on his way home, with 
Mr. Ferguson. Lincoln, a skillful axman, cut cordwood for Ferguson, 
till he secured money enough to reach his home on the Ohio. While 
the Avar raged between the States, Wappanockee, then grown old and 
gray, but still active and erect, visited Washington. The old Indian 
fighter, unheralded and unannounced, entered the White House, and 
was recognized on the instant and welcomed cordially by the wood- 
chopper of forty years before. Ever afterward Mr. Ferguson was 
wont to recount, with exquisite satisfaction, incidents of this interview 
with the President of the United States. It was this memory of this 
intercourse in his early years with Mr. Lincoln, for whom Mr. Fergu- 
son entertained feelings of great respect, that influenced very strongly 
the political and partisan conduct of Mr. Ferguson in 1860-61. He 
was President and an active member of the Cob Pipe (union) Associa- 
tion of that day. He served as a soldier under General Jackson at the 
battle of New Orleans, where he was employed, as in General Jack- 
son's preceding campaigns, as a sharp-shooter. Mr. Ferguson died in 
Memphis, where he had lived about t\venty years, in January, 1867. 

DR. GEORGE R. GRANT, 

A native of Charleston, S. C, removed, when young, to Jackson 
county, Georgia. He was educated in the best American schools of 
medicine, and came to Memphis more than thirty years ago. He was 
universally respected for his professional attainments, even as he was be- 
loved by those he served professionally. He was generous, amiable, 
and kindly in words and deeds. He died in April, 1870, aged sixty-six. 



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DR. SAMUEL G. GILBERT. 

"The most successful in money-making of all Memphis physiciuns, was 
born in AVestmoreland county, Virginia, in 1802, and died here in 
1869. He met death calmly — contemplating its approach for six 
■months — and as heroically as any that rest in Elmwood. He was 
poor in early life, and apprenticed to a tailor. He suffered many 
years from a running sore in his side which the healing art, as 
practiced by learned physicians, failed to cure. He undertook the 
task for himself, and was successful. He sought information every- 
where, and reading constantly, and having a vigorous intellect, 
became most skillful in treating ulcers, and it was often asserted that 
he cured incurable cancers. His fame extended over the whole 
country, and he was more successful in New Orleans and New York 
than here at his own home. He established a hospital in Memphis, 
through a series of years, filled with patients from all directions and 
States. He was a devout Spiritualist, and separated himself from an 
•orthodox church to die in this faith. He acquired great wealth, was 
kind and generous, and certainly a man of rare natural intellectual 
energies and endowments. 



J. O. GREENLAW 

Was, we believe, a Virginian by birth. He came to Shelby county 
in his early youth, and lived near Raleigh. His early education was 
neglected, but he bore a vigorous head on a vigorous body, and, 
making Memphis his home, soon won wealth. He and his brother, 
William Borden, were partners in all l)usiness transactions, and owned 
everything in common, and Memphis never boasted of two more 
useful and enterprising citizens. Of J. O. Greenlaw it has been 
stated that he was the bravest of the brave. He went on board a 
steamer on fire, freighted, as he knew, with many tons of gunpowder, 
and extinguished the flames. The Confederate forces, under Gen. 
Polk, had just landed at New Madrid, and many vessels were lying at 
the wharf. All who saw the flames fled save Greenlaw and Gen. 
Cheatham. Such is the story told of his daring conduct, by which 
many lives, and much valuable property, and many steamers 'svere 
saved. Mr. Greenlaw died in Memphis February, 1864, aged fifty-two 
years. He was distinguished alike for frankness, honesty, and truth- 
fulness, as for energy and courage, and Memphis has hardly lost a 
more useful citizen. 



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JAMES GREER 

AVas born September 21st, 1774, nearly one hundred years ago, in 
Bedford county, Virginia. He migrated in 1790 to Greene county,. 
Georgia, and thence to Sumner county, Tenn. In 1822 he became a 
citizen of Henry county, Tennessee, and was the first imjDorter of dry 
goods into Obion county. Population rapidly became dense, and the 
country therefore objectionable to a frontiersman, and Mr, Greer 
removed to Holly Springs, Miss., and in 1836, at the sale of town lots, 
bought a home in that most attractive place. In 1851, though time' 
had written legibly upon his brow, and his form was bent by the 
lapse of years, his indomitable restive spirit, still untamed, impelled 
him to seek a home in Arkansas. He bought the section of land on 
which the town known as DeVal's Bluff now stands, and was there 
the mercantile partner of his son-in-law, J. J. Worsham. Mr. Greer 
died in 1851, soon after he went to DeVal's Bluff". His remains were 
interred in Elmwood. 



BARNETT GRAHAM. 

Barnett Graham, for many years a most prosperous merchant of 
Memphis, was born June 22d, 1812, in Rockingham county, North 
Carolina. In the twenty-first year of his age, when this city was a 
little village, he became a citizen of Memphis. When a boy, he had 
been a mail carrier, and gathered a little money by the practice of 
habits of economy, of which he never divested himself. He was clerk 
and salesman ; for a time employed by the late Joseph Coojier. He 
gathered wealth slowly but surely, and was distinguished for his 
truthfulness, promptness and inflexible integrity. He died at the St. 
Nicholas Hotel, in the city of New York, August 27th, 1866. His 
excellent wife was the daughter of Col. Nat. Anderson, and sister of 
Governor Robert Anderson, of California. 



JASPER C. GRIPPING, 

Through twenty-two years a cotton broker in Memphis, of whom no- 
unkind word was ever spoken, was born October, 1816, in Jessamine 
county, Kentucky. At different periods he was associated in business 
with men of the highest character and of consummate skill. He was 
eminently just and charitable, and distinguished for his tireless 
assiduity in devotion to the active duties of business life. He died 
in Memphis in 1868. 



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KENNETH GARRETT, 

A North Caroliuian, became a citizen of Madison county, Tennessee.. 
About twenty-five years ago he purchased the magnificent Rogers. 
estate of, perhaps, two thousand acres, four miles east of Memphis.^ 
Mr. Garrett Avas distinguished for his shrewdness, tact, forethought 
and sleepless activity. He once, within a few hours, bought all the 
whisky in Memphis. The river was closed by ice and uunavigable \ 
there were no railways, and Mr. Garrett sold out at his own price. He 
was never married, was eminently successful in money-making, and at 
his death enriched many of his kindred. He was truthful, prompt 
and in everything trustworthy. He died November lOth, 1853, aged- 
fifty-three. 



WARDLOW HOWARD, 

A Virginian by birth, came to Memphis about thirty years ago. The 
place was hardly more than a village then (in 1843), and Howard, 
through a series of years, was the most daring cotton speculator, and 
one of the most successful commission merchants. He was accus- 
tomed to buy from wagons. There were no railways in West 
Tennessee in those days, and a thousand camp fires by night lighted' 
up the Promenade on the western front of the city. Howard wanted 
no change, and even deplored the revolution wrought in Memphis 
modes of business life by cheaper agencies of transportation. He way 
distinguished for his nervous energy and tireless devotion to business. 
At length his health failed, and through a series of years he moved 
idly and slowly about his old haunts on Front street. At last, in- 
(September, 1871, he lived no more, and was borne to Elmwood,. 
followed by a great concourse of old citizens. Front street has- 
almost forgotten even now to call his name, and Ho\vard's Row is his- 
most enduring monument. He was sixty-five years of age at the- 
date of his death. 



HUME F. HILL, 

Through a long series of years, was Notary Public and Justice of the 
Peace in Memphis. He was a Virginian by birth, of excellent good 
practical sense, was very popular, and held his office without fear of 
ejection. He died in July, 1870, aged fifty -eight. 



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GEORGE L. HOLMES 

Was a New Englander by birth, who became in early life a teacher 
and citizen of Georgia. He married Miss Rembert, of that State, and 
not long afterwards became a citizen of Shelby county, Tennessee. 
He was a successful cotton planter, and in social life a most admirable 
gentleman. He represented Memphis and Shelby county with great 
usefulness in the Legislature. He died soon after the cessation of 
hostilities between the States. He was eminently public-spirited, and 
aiding liberally in every enterprise designed to enrich the city and 
county. He was tasteful in dress, easy and pleasing in his manners, 
faultless in practical morals, a classical scholar, and a devout mem- 
ber of the Congregational Church. He died in February, 1867, aged 
sixty-one. 



JOHN HOUSTON 

Was a cousin of Gen. Samuel Houston ; born, we believe, in North 
Carolina, March 7th, 1792. He made Memphis his home nearly forty 
years ago, and was distinguished for his seemingly imperturbable good 
humor and great physical strength. He was once rudely assaulted by 
a man apparently his equal, and by a single blow — never dreaming of 
such a result — he killed his antagonist, and never could be induced to 
strike a man afterward. There was never a citizen of INIemphis more 
beloved than the laughter-loving, genial, warm-hearted " Uncle Johnny 
Houston." Such was the appellation ever given him. He died in 
May, 1863, seventy-three years of age. 



CAPT. J. HAMILTON, 

A young member of the Memphis bar, from Columbus, Georgia, was 
chosen Captain of the Southern Guards in 1861. His company was 
afterward assigned to artillery duty and captured, Capt. Tom Johnson 
then commanding it, at Vicksburg. Captain Hamilton w'as an 
elegant gentleman, of graceful, easy manners, tasteful in dress, and of 
winning personal appearance. He died at Columbus, Ky., and his 
untimely demise was as deeply deplored here as at his original home in 
Georgia. His body was deposited with distinguished military honors 
in Elmwood in 1861. 



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C. K. HOLST 

Came to this city thirty-three years ago. As might naturally have 
been supposed, he was born and reared in Copenhagen, the capital of 
Denmark, made famous in the world's annals by the genius of Shak- 
speare as the home of Hamlet, and of the grave-digger. Curiously 
enough, too, whenever any little untoward event occurred in Mr. 
Hoist's daily life as a sexton, he was accustomed to exclaim, "There's 
something rotten in Denmark." It was the life-long habit of Mr. 
Hoist to Avitness each presentation in Memphis of the play of Hamlet, 
and on such occasions his whole family accompanied him to the 
theater. He was eminently prosperous, even as he was tireless in 
discharging his tasks as an undertaker, and was ever deemed as 
upright as his avocation was solemn. Nor Avas his seriousness won- 
derful when we reflect that his hourly conversation was of funereal 
woes, and his "daily walk" the measured tread of funereal proces- 
sions. Unhappily, in one of its aspects, for Memphis, he was one of 
our most active and prosperous business men ; but he knew no guile, 
and was as truthful as he was serene. When he came to this country 
he landed in Boston, and haviog no other means of employment was 
engaged at the city's wharves for some time as a stevedore. He 
remembered well every incident of the bombardment of Copenhagen 
in 1812 by Lord Kelson, and Avas accustomed to tell, in 1861-2, of the 
horrors of war, from which he started back appalled. He died in the 
midst of the war between the States in 1863, in the sixty-fourth year 
of his age, honored for his simple virtues and genuine worth. 



JOHN FLOURNOY HENRY, 

The son of the distinguished orator and Confederate States Senator, 
Gustavus A. Henry, was born in 1837, at Clarksville, Tenn. He was 
graduated by Stewart College in 1857, and by the University of Vir- 
ginia in 1858, and by the Lebanon Law School in 1860. He made 
Memphis his home, and when the war between the States began 
became a private in the Shelby Grays, and Major of the Fourth Ten- 
nessee (Neely's) regiment. His services were continuous to the 6th of 
April, 1862, wdien he fell, leading a charge on the battle-field of 
Shiloh. A ball had penetrated his right lung. He survived till the 
28th of April, dying in Memphis. Every virtue adorned his young 
heroic life, and every honor that a soldier covets was awarded him 
after death. 



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EDWARD LUMPKIN HAMLIN, 

Born in Marshall county, Mississippi, in 1845 ; in September, 1863, 
became a cadet in the Virginia Military Institute. In 1864, with 
about three hundred other cadets, he volunteered, was accepted, and 
entered the Confederate service. The battalion thus organized was 
subjected to the orders of Gen. John C. Breckenridge, then in the 
Valley of the Shenandoah. Young Hamlin participated in several 
battles, and at New Market, with his fellow cadets, was especially dis- 
tinguished. The battalion was ordered, in the winter of 1864, to the 
defenses of Richmond, where Mr. Hamlin remained until he was 
honorably discharged in the spring of 1865. He was assigned to the 
staff of Gen. M. J. Wright, and served in this capacity till the cessa- 
tion of hostilities. He returned to Memphis, and became a law stu- 
dent under the tutelage of Judge Henry G. Smith, and was graduated 
by the Law School of Harvard University in 1867. He was admitted 
to the bar, associated in business with his distinguished preceptor. 
Judge Smith, and began life with prospects as brilliant as his attain- 
ments were great and personal character admirable, when his career 
was terminated by his death, August 26th, 1870. 



JOHN F. HAMLIN, 

One of the most accomplished gentleman of his day encountered upon 
the streets of Memphis, was born in Dinwiddle county, A^irginia. He 
came to Memphis about 1850, and was a successful cotton planter, his 
attractive estate lying a few miles southeast from the city. He died 
in 1864, in the fifty-first year of his age. 



T. W. HUNT, 

A devout member of the Episcopal Church, and for many years a 
partner, in a most lucrative commission house, of Col. Sara. Mosby, 
died in Memphis in 186-. In his personal appearance, manners, and 
intercourse with gentlemen, he was singularly fascinating. His face 
told of the purity of his purposes, and faultlessness of his instincts. 
He died in the vigor of manhood, universally beloved, in December, 
1862, about forty-three years of age. 



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JUDGE WILLIAM R. HARRIS 

Was born in 1803, in Monttroniery county, North Carolina. J 11 early 
vouth, with his fatlier, he came to Bedford county, Tennessee. His 
educational advantages were limited. In 1825 he read law in the 
office of Jesse Cook, and began professional life in Paris, in this State, 
and was wonderfully successful. He was appointed Circuit Judge by 
Governor Cannon in 1836, and, having been elected by the Legisla- 
ture, held the office eight years. In 1851 he removed to Memphis, 
and soon afterward was appointed Judge of the Common Law and 
Chancery Court, to fill the place made vacant by the death of that 
extraordinary genius, Judge Wm. B. Turley. By the action of the 
Legislature he was assigned for eight years to this office. In 1855 
Judge Totten, having resigned his place on the Supreme Bench, Gov- 
ernor Andrew Johnson appointed Judge Harris to fill the vacancy. 
The people confirmed Governor Johnson's choice, and he was elected 
to fill the place for a full term of eight years. He held this distin- 
guished jjosition at the date of the tragical event which caused his 
■death. On the 13th of June, 1858, the boilers of the steamer Penn- 
sylvania exploded not far below Memphis. Many were killed out- 
right. Judge Harris was on board, and being burned by steam, sur- 
vived only six days, dying January 19th, 1858. Without any of the 
adventitious aids of fortune, he won the foremost position among 
lawyers and judges of Tennessee. He was the most industrious of 
students, most faithful of lawyers, and in social and domestic life his 
conduct was absolutely faultless. He was sometimes irascible, but his 
temper only gave vigor to his clear, active, comprehensive, logical 
intellect. He was the oldest brother of Ex-Governor Isham G. 
Harris, of Tennessee. 



HON. HAYNES E. HUDSON 

Was born near Rochester, New York, in October, 1838, and was 
in his thirty-fifth year at his death, on the 4th of June, 1873. He 
had been a citizen of Memphis since 1865. He filled the office of 
.Judge of the Criminal Court of Memphis about twelve months, with 
great ability, and with the strictest impartiality. About three years 
previous to his death he was appointed United States Attorney, which 
office he held at his demise. Upon his official life there was not 
a blemish, and his private and professional life Avas pure. His death 
was much lamented by his ^professional brethren, and by his fellow- 
-citizens of Memphis. He ranked as captain in the Federal service. 



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JAMES M. HOWARD 

Was a native of Sumner county, Tennessee. He came to Memphis in 
1840, and was associated in business with F. H. Cossitt and I. M. Hill, 
these three having established the first wholesale dry goods house that 
existed in Memphis. He died in the forty-first year of his age, in 
April, 1855, leaving his children the legacy of a spotless name and 
the example of a blameless life. 



DR. WM. L. IRWIN, 

Born A2>ril 25th, 1819, at Alexandria, Va., was graduated at Prince- 
ton College, New Jersey, in 1835, at the age of sixteen. He began 
at once the study of medicine, and was granted a diploma by Jefferson 
Medical College, of Philadelphia, in 1840. He began the pra^ctice of 
his profession in Murfreesboro, N, C, and was eminently successful. 
In 1851 he made Memphis his home, where he was ever regarded an 
accomplished master of the healing art. He was associated, through 
a series of years, with Dr. Robards, of whom we tell in another place. 
Dr. Irwin was not only an industrious professional student, but ever 
conversant with the current literature of his time. Few new books 
worth reading escaped him. He was a doctor without quackery, a 
scholar without pedantry, and of course a modest, unobtrusive, 
elegant gentleman. He died after an active professional career of 
twenty-one years in Memphis, in 1872. 



S. W. JEFFERSON 

Came to Memphis in 1838 from Sussex county, Delaware, where he 
was born in 1817. Through a series of years he was a successful 
tradesman at the foot of Market street. He became a partner of H. 
Mette. No Memphis firm conducted, through a longer series of years, 
a business more uniformly profitable and extensive. The partnership 
subsisted for nearly twenty years, when Mr. Jefferson's failing health 
compelled his withdrawal from active participation in the transactions 
of the house. He died February, 1872, in the fifty-fifth year of his 
age. He was prompt, active, of tireless energy, an excellent trades- 
man, and left his children the priceless legacy of unspotted fiime. An 
admirable monument, reared by affection's hand, designates his grave 
in Elmwood, a photograph of which appears in another place. 








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GOVERNOR JAMES C. JONES 

Was born in 1809, near the line between Davidson and Wilson 
counties, within two miles of the Hermitage. His father died while 
he was yet in his infancy. His early advantages were limited. Not 
more than two or three years of his life were spent at school, but from 
the use of books, to which he gained access, he familiarized himself 
with ancient and modern history, and Avith the elementary branches of 
an English education. Up to the date of his marriage, in the twen- 
tieth year of his age, he was chiefly employed on the plantation of 
Col. Ward, his guardian, but at intervals, when his services were not 
needed, he spent his time at school and in reading books. At the age 
of twenty-one his small patrimony was transferred to him by his 
guardian, and he purchased a farm in Wilson county, where he 
became the model farmer of his neighborhood. In 1837 he became a 
member of the Legislature. Whenever released from political cares, 
he directed all his energies to the construction of great public works. 
Wherever he lived, cotton factories, turnpikes, and railroads sprang 
into existence. The largest manufacturing establishment in the 
South, burned a few years ago at Lebanon, in this State, was the 
product of his labors, as was a like establishment destroyed in like 
manner at Memphis. His efforts in behalf of the Nashville and Chat- 
tanooga railroad, when its construction was first conceived, are well 
remembered in Middle Tennessee, and the people will not forget his 
ceaseless toil through two years in behalf of the Memphis and Charles- 
ton road. The old Memphis and LaGrange road, planned by General 
Gaines, had proven a disastrous failure. Memphis and the adjacent 
country was almost without highways of any kind, the city was 
growing rapidly, and the wagon trade by most men Avas deemed 
indispensable to the prosperity of Memphis. Almost unaided, save 
by R. C. Brinkley and a few others, Governor Jones accomplished the 
herculean task of securing two and a half millions of dollars, for the 
purpose of building the road, without going into Wall street, or look- 
ing abroad for aid. The result of his success has been the construc- 
tion of railways in every direction. Just prior to his death he was 
chosen President of the I\Iemphis, El Paso and Pacific road, and the 
last speech he ever made was pronounced in Odd Fellows' Hall in 
Memphis, accepting this office, and assuring the people that within 
five years the Mississippi and Pacific, like the Mississippi and Atlantic, 
■would be linked together by his toil. 

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128 Elmwood Cemetery, 



the close of this contest, after the. old party leaders had refused to 
accept the position, he was assigned the duty of defeating James K. 
Polk, tlie Democratic candidate for gubernatorial honors. Polk had 
been elected by ten thousand majority ; he had served eight years in 
<^ongress; had been Speaker of the House of Representatives; and 
was deemed irresistible on the score of statesmanship, learning and 
■experience. He had never encountered his equal as a popular orator. 
Governor Jones, thirty-one years of age, and with little experience as 
a debater, promptly accepted the nomination, and at once set to 
work to prepare himself for the canvass which was to follow. He was 
accustomed to speak of his misgivings when he first encountered Mr. 
Polk; of Mr. Polk's frequent allusion to himself as his ''juvenile 
competitor; " of the magnificence of Polk's oratory, and of the seem- 
ingly unanswerable logic which characterized his speeches. He felt 
himself in the grasp of a giant. He said that his reply would have 
been impotent but for an accident. Mr. Ledbetter, of Murfreesboro, 
lianded him, as he arose to speak, an old pamphlet copy of a speech of 
Mr. Polk on the tariff" question, made when he first entered Congi-ess. 
Between the speech of that day and that delivered on the occasion 
referred to, there was a real or fancied inconsistency, which gave to 
Jones a theme for ridicule and invective, which he well knew how to 
.exhaust. He said that in this collision his partisan and personal 
friends expected little from him. He certainly anticipated an over- 
%vhelming defeat. At night he was congratulated on his success by 
large bodies of AVhigs, and thenceforward was inspired with that con- 
fidence born of success. The canvass was a most exciting one, and 
resulted in Jones' election. At the close of his gubernatorial terra he 
.and Mr. Polk were re-nominated. The struggle which followed was 
desperate, of national interest, and Avill never be forgotten by those who 
then lived in Tennessee, and will ever be memorable as furnishing the 
jnost brilliant examples of popular oratory and of Avonderful enthu- 
siasm. The result Avas again in Jones' favor. He canvassed Tennessee 
in 1844 for Mr. Clay, in 1848 for General Taylor, in 1852 for General 
Scott, and in 1856 for Buchanan, on each occasion the State voting 
as he wished. Governor Jones was President of the Memphis and 
Charleston liailroad Company when elected to the Senate of the 
United States. 

The intellect of Governor Jones was most vigorous. His education 
•was not thorough by any means, but application and memory ren- 
jdered him an accurate historian. As an eloquent and powerful public 



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debater, Governor Jones had no superior, and es})ecially was he dis- 
tinguished for his burning, matchless, overpowering oratory. There 
■was a quickness of perception, vigor of deduction, a directness and 
devotedness of i:)urpose, a terrible earnestness and gracefulness of 
naanuers, v.hich gave him irresistible influence. As a man, he was 
kind, generous and true — a sincere friend, an open and frank oppo- 
nent. His hospitality was proverbial, and neither avarice nor malice 
had a resting place in his bosom. There was an unsullied purity of 
heart, an inflexible integrity in his conduct, an indescribable fascina- 
tion in his social intercourse, and an honest frankness in his conversa- 
tion that won everybody. He died in October, 1859. Bishop Otey 
pronounced the funeral eulogium, full of love for his life-long friend, 
and of learning and godlike benevolence, and the greatest concourse 
that ever entered Elmwood followed the hearse bearing the remains 
of Gov. Jones. The owners of the Cemetery, in view of his public 
services, gave a lot, and a tasteful monument marks the spot where his 
body reposes. A simple legend tells the story of his life and death. 
He was born in 1809, and died in the fiftieth year of his age. 

SPENCER JARNAGIN, 

Born in Granger county, East Tennessee, came to Memphis about the 
year 1847. He had already served in the Senate of the United States, 
and was distinguished, above all men of his time in Tennessee, for 
simple, natural, faultless eloquence. An ordinary, unstudied speech 
of Spencer Jarnagin was a clear, rippling, glittering stream into 
which everybody gazed with rapt attention, fascinated by its matchless 
clearness and beauty. "When very young he appeared with Badger 
and Webster at the bar of the United States Supreme Court, and 
Avon distinguished honors. He died here June 25th, 1851, when asso- 
ciated as an attorney with Levin H. Coe. Mr. Jarnagin was educated, 
we believe, at Greenville, East Tennessee. He was, perhaj)s, sixty 
years of age at the time of his death. 

JUDGE THOMAS JAMES, 

A Kentuckian, who served under General Jackson at the battle of 
Xew Orleans, spent the last twenty years of his life in Memphis. He 
gave his name to James Park, and died in September, 1870, aged 
sixty-five. He served as a member of the Kentucky Legislature, 
either as Representative or Senator, for twenty years. 
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130 Ehnwood Cemetery. 



JUDGE BENNETT LITTLETON KERR. 

Judge Kerr was born at Charlottesville, Albemarle county, Va., on 
the 6th day of May, 1798, and died at his residence in this city on the 
13th of February, 1874, aged seventy-five years. He Avas the oldest 
son of Rev. John Rice Kerr, an eminent Presbyterian minister. At 
the age of sixteen Judge Kerr accompanied his father to Kentucky, 
Avhere he remained until 1865, when he removed to Memphis. In 
early life he studied law, and 2Dracticed his profession with marked 
success, and for four years was Judge of Probate Court for Hart 
county, Kentucky. Judge Kerr was a cultivated gentleman, of good 
capacity, and the nicest sense of honor and propriety in all things. 
His leading traits Avere unyielding integrity, simplicity and regularity 
of habits, unafiected politeness, purity of character and speech, utter 
unselfishness, a devotion to his family and kindred the most tender 
and solicitous ; extreme modesty, exact justice and truth, as tested by 
the standard of the quickest conscience, and an humble, self-distrustful 
piety, which kej^t him constantly at the foot of the Cross. For more 
than forty years he had been a ruling elder in the Presbyterian 
■Church. As he had lived, so he died, a meek, humble Christian, 
with "conscience void of offense toward God and man," and, owing 
no man a dollar. 



CAPT. WM. KEHOE 

Was born, we believe, in this city. In any event his father resided 
here many years, often representing his ward in the City Council. 
Wm. Kehoe was a famous Captain of the Fire Department, a position 
he filled with perfect satisfaction to the people and insurance compa- 
nies through a series of years. He was buried with distinguished 
honors by the Fire Department and municipal authorities. He Avas 
self-possessed in the midst of danger, singularly Avell-fitted to govern 
men, Avinning confidence and respect, and very certainly there Avas 
never a j)ublic officer of the city who filled his position more credit- 
ably, or won greater distinction than "VVm. Kehoe. He died February, 
1872, aged forty. 



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JAMES LENOW, 

Brother of Capt. Joseph Lenow, President, and father of John H. 
Lenow, Secretary of Ehnwood Association, was a native of South- 
ampton county, Virginia. He became a merchant and partner of his 
brother Joseph, at Hickory Withe, Fayette county, Tennessee, in 
1837. The partners were most successful. In 1846 he became a 
citizen of Memphis. In 1850 the two brothers were in Louisville, 
en route to Virginia, Avhere their aged mother had ever resided. 
James Lenow became sick and died in Louisville, his brother watch- 
ing tirelessly and constantly at his bedside. The mother of the 
brothers had preceded the son to the land of shadows, but her death 
had not been announced to them. James Lenow was a most skillful, 
thoughtful merchant, prompt and honorable. His word was his bond, 
and in every relation of life he was a faultless gentleman. At the 
time of his death, June 9th, 1850, he was forty years of age. His 
remains Avere removed October 28th, 1859, to Elmwood, from a 
private burying-ground. 



D. M. LEATHERMAN 

Was born, we believe, in Giles county. Middle Tennessee, He came 
to Memphis a lawyer in 1848, and was made Prosecuting Attorney 
by the State Legislature. He served for a time in this capacity, and, 
having made money by investments in real estate, retired from active 
professional life. For twenty years he did little else than Avauder 
about from city to city, leading a life of easy indolence. He died in 
Jul}^ 1873, aged sixty years. He was the first President of Elmwood 
Association. A photograph of his vault on Chapel Hill, containing 
his remains, adorns a page of this volume. 

GARDNER B. LOCKE, 

AVho was ]\Iayor of Memphis in 1848-9, was long a citizen of this 
county before he became a Memphis merchant. In early life he was 
the friend and associate of David Crockett, and, like Crockett, was 
distinguished for his integrity of character, and indomitable energy. 
When financial ruin overwhelmed Mr. Locke, the people never with- 
drew confidence, and he was invested with most honoi-able municipal 
ofiices. He would have retrieved his fortunes, but the dull, heavy 
shadows of coming calamities preceded the war between the States 
and darkened the last hours of many like Gardner B. Locke. He 
died December, 1859, about sixty years of age. 



132 Elmwood Cemetery. 



COL. SAM. LEAKE, 

The most esteemed country inn-keeper of his time, Avas a Virginian by 
birth. A quarter of a century ago the lawyers of Memphis Avere wont 
to ride the circuit, attending all the courts in four or five adjacent 
counties. Whenever limbs of the law set out, there was a common 
understanding that the first night of absence from the city was to be 
spent at Col. Leake's. Those were nodes ambrosiance. Col. Leake, 
then nearly sixty years of age, was full of vivacity, tall, slender, 
graceful, of tireless good humor, a capital story-teller, and above all 
an excellent violinist. When the law} ers came, girls from neighbor- 
ing farm-houses were gathered in, -and Terpsichore and Solon danced 
joyously, and often furiously. It was with a festival like this that 
Col. Leake, a devout Whig, was celebrating the supposed defeat of 
Polk and election of Henry Clay in 1843-4. News came slowly in 
those days, and statements were constantly corrected or contradicted. 
A stranger appeared, and while a dozen pairs were dancing merrily, 
and Col. Leake fiddled in ecstacy, the stranger announced the triumph 
of Polk, and produced incontestable evidence of the correctness of his 
assertions. The music was heard no more, lights were extinguished, 
the merry dancers stood still, loquacious lawyers were silenced, and 
Col. Leake, with tearful eyes, and trembling lips, told the story of 
Polk's victory and Clay's defeat. It Avas a terrible revulsion of 
feeling which he underwent, and never more did he become so 
thoroughly absorbed in a political contest. He lived many years after 
this, making his residence, twenty-four miles from Memphis, on the 
Somerville road, the constant abiding place of generosity to the poor, 
and of boundless hospitality. There was not a more kindly or more 
truthful, trustworthy gentleman of his time than Col. Sam. Leake. 
He was born in Virginia, and died about 1853, j^erhaps sixty-five 
years of age. His remains were recently re-interred in Elmwood. 
Col. Sam. Leake was the father of the late Dr. Virginius Leake, 
Avho, at the time of his death, in 1873, was State Senator from the 
county of Shelby. 



HENRY LAKE 

Was a Marylander by birth. In 1834 he became a successful mer- 
chant in this State, he and his partner, Wm. Armour, owning at one 
time thirteen mercantile establishments in as many different towns 



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and cities. The collapse of 1837-40 came, and the firm was bank- 
rupt. Henry Lake devoted nearly thirty years of his life to the 
simple purpose of paying debts begotten by this calamity. His cred- 
itors never sued him, and were paid, at last, the last farthing. His 
honest worth was properly appreciated by the people, and through a 
long series of years he held the office of County Register. He was a 
devout member of the Baptist Church, and no purer or better man 
ever lived and died in Shelby county than Henry Lake. He died 
October, 18GG, aged seventy. 



DR. JOHN W. LEFTWICH 

Was born in Bedford county, Virginia, in 1827, and died March Gth, 
1870, at Lynchburg, Va. Li 1832 his family found a home in Maury 
county, in this State. There he was a farmer's boy, and indebted 
to his own industry for a liberal education. He was a regularly 
trained and graduated physician, and was heard to say that he was 
led to question his own skill and attainments when his patients died, 
and abandoned the practice of his profession from convictions of 
duty and sensitiveness of feeling, when he might have won its high- 
est honors. He came to Memphis in 1854, and was a successful 
tradesman. In the war between the States he stood aloof — never 
faltering, however, in his devotion to the Union. His unquestioned 
honesty won for him the confidence alike of Northern and Southern, 
Union and Confederate people, and in 1866 he was chosen a member 
/of the Federal Congress, having been elected by an overwhelming 
majority. He voted steadily with the Democratic minority, and was 
a steadfast and zealous friend of President Andrew Johnson. Li 1868 
he was defeated in the contest for re-election by David Nunn. Then 
the whites Avere disfranchised, and negroes were invested with the 
right of suffrage. Soon afterwards he was made Mayor of INIemphis, 
an office Avhich he filled with satisfaction to the people. He was ten- 
dered a foreign mission, but deemed its acceptance, while in office as 
Mayor, unjust to the people of Memphis. He was again defeated for 
Congress, but believing that he had been elected by the people, he 
was en route to Washington to prosecute the contest for his seat, 
■when stricken by disease at Lynchburg, where he died. 

He was generous, kindly, amial)le, of pleasing address, a clear, 
consecutive thinker, and a simple and logical reasouer. His manner 



134 Elmwood Cemetery. 



of speaking was most winning and persuasive. In fact, his honest 
face, clear blue eyes, and palpable earnestness, won him troops of 
friends and adherents. He was distinguished for his tact and admira- 
ble bonhomie, and tireless industry and stainless public and private 
morals. He was a faultless citizen, and there is no occupant of Elm- 
wood whose personal fame is more admirable than that of John W- 
Leftwich. 



JOHN C. McLEMORE, 

Born in Orange county, North Carolina, January 1st, 1790, died 
February 20th, 1864. He became a clerk in the Surveyor General's 
office, at Nashville, in 1806. On the death of his uncle, Col. Wm, 
Christmas, Mr. McLemore succeeded to his office, and was retained in 
it by the Legislature many years. He married the daughter of John 
Donelson, and, rich in gold and popular confidence, wielded unex- 
ampled influence, especially in the central and western districts of 
Tennessee. There was never a citizen of the State so thoroughly 
cognizant of all facts affecting the value of land in all portions of 
Tennessee. Generous in giving information, and never misleading- 
those seeking his assistance, he was the guide-book to migratory 
populations from older States. He bought Gen. Jackson's share in 
the John Rice grant, on which Memphis stands, and, as lauded 
proprietor, was generous to the last degree. He was only too con- 
fiding, and lost heavily by endorsing the notes of his friends. He 
designed a monument to his life-long associate, President Jackson, 
intended to be erected on the summit of the great mound at Fort 
Pickering. With Gen. Gaines he planned, and aided in the partial 
construction, nearly forty years ago, of a railway to LaGrange, 
designed to be extended to Charleston. Even then he discussed and 
defined the route of a road to the Pacific, across western plains and 
prairies, and, in old age, when the scheme began to assume practical 
shape, no one evinced keener interest in its consummation. He was 
of courtly manner, of most benignant expression of face, tall, slender, 
graceful in bearing, and always well dressed. Admirable gentlemen 
were John C. McLemore, M. B. Winchester, Charles Lofland, John 
Pope, and many like them, who made truth and honor the only 
touchstones of respectability and social recognition in the olden time. 



Biographical Sketches. 



DR. AYRES PHILLIPS MERRILL 

The son of a soldier of the revolution, was born at Pittsfield, Massa- 
chusetts, in 1798. He studied medicine, and at the age of twenty-one 
became a surgeon in the United States army. He served at Pensa- 
cola, New Orleans and Natchez, first under Gen. Jackson, and later 
under Gen. Zachary Taylor. With both those famous men. Dr. Mer- 
rill's relations of close personal friendship were never interrupted 
while they lived. While filling an array surgeon's place, in cities of 
the South, Dr. Merrill became most skillful in the treatment of yellow 
fever, and in reference to this scourge, which has made the year 1873 
the blackest in the annals of Memphis, and transferred a multitude 
from the City of the Living to that of the Dead, he wrote many able 
disquisitions. He was a constant contributor to the periodical and 
newspaper literature of his time. He resigned his place in the army, 
Avas married, and made his home in Natchez. He was for many years 
President of the Agricultural Bank, and founded the public school 
system of Natchez, as he did that of Memphis. He became a citizen 
of Memphis in 1851, and resided here till 1867, when he went to New 
York. In Memphis, he participated actively and earnestly in the 
determination of every question affecting public interests. He edited 
a medical journal ; was a zealous, learned professor in the Medical 
College ; was a member of the Vigilance Committee of 18G1 ; and 
almost daily a contributor to the local newspaper press. His firmness, 
though admirable, never degenerated into obstinacy, nor his learning 
into pedantry. Serving the world with unexampled zeal and philan- 
thropy, he never forgot to serve his God. He died a devout Episco- 
palian, in New York, November 3d, 1873, and at his own request, 
was interred in Elmwood. He was an original shareholder in the 
Elmwood Association. 



R. A. MOON 

Came to Memphis from Virginia in 1849. He was a successful 
commission merchant, and, personally, a most popular citizen. Born 
in 1824, he died in 1869, in the very midst of a most useful and 
actively-spent life. 



136 Elmwood Cemetery 



JACOB N. MOON 

Came to Memphis ia 1828 from Albemarle county, Virginia, and at 
the time of his death, in 1873, in the sixty-sixth year of his age, was 
one of the oldest residents of the city. For many years he was a 
most successful merchant, connected with prosperous houses in Kew 
Orleans and in Memphis. He was most successful in money-making, 
but left to his children an infinitely more valuable legacy in his 
spotless fame than in the wealth he gathered. After a long and 
tedious sickness, and conscious for several days that he must die, Mr. 
Moon turned, with a smile upon his pale, wan features, to his physician, 
Dr. R. F. Brown, and said: "Brown, you don't know, my dear fellow, 
how easy it is to die with a clear conscience." Mr. Moon died as 
fearlessly as he had lived, never once shrinking when death drew 
near, illustrating, in the supreme moment, the fact that he deserved 
the fame he had won — that of an honest man. 



CAPT. CHARLES MAY, 

Born in Rockingham county, Virginia, in 1818, became a citizen of 
Memphis in 1854. Here he was a successful business man. He was 
chosen Second Lieutenant, in 1861, in Charles McDonald's company, 
and, when the sixty day command was dissolved, was chosen Captain 
of "Forrest's Rangers." He joined Col. Forrest at Fort Donelson, 
then beleaguered by Grant's army. He led in a successful charge 
upon a Federal battery, and fell at the head of his command. His 
body was brought to Memphis and buried with distinguished honors 
jn Elmwood. A plain marble monument marks his grave, on which 
appears the inscription : 

Capt. Charles May, 

OF 

Forrkst's Rangers, 

Died February 15th, 1862, aged 44 years. 

Fell on the battlefield of Fort Donelson. Brave, generous and firm, he fell while 

leading a charge on the enemy's battery. His last words were "Onward, 

my brave boys; onward to victory I " 



Biographical Sketches. 137 



JOHN R. McCLANAHAN, 

Through a long series of years, Avas the proprietor and editor-in-chief 
of the Appeal. He was its manager when it was driven from one 
point to another while war raged in the Gulf States. He was its 
editor at Grenada, at Jackson, at Montgomery, at Atlanta and Macon, 
Ga. He watched its fortunes with sleepless affection and care, and 
made it one of the best publications of its time in the South. 

McClanahan was born in South Carolina, and came in early life to 
Jackson, Tennessee, where he was a carrier-boy for Col. Jesse H. 
McMahon, as he was afterwards his rival and political antagonist 
through a long series of years in Memphis, For several years, he was 
associated with Henry Van Pelt, and afterward with Leon. Trousdale, 
an accomplished writer and excellent gentleman. McClanahan Avas 
endowed with great physical and intellectual energy. He wrote 
unpolished but most vigorous and effective editorials, and in the arena 
of ever3'-day political combats of his time, was worthy the steel of the 
most skillful antagonist. He was utterly fearless, and of infinite 
good nature. Gen. Smith P. Bankhead, when editing the Whig, 
assailed ]\IcClanahan, as the latter thought, with indefensible violence. 
McClanahan went into Bankhead's office and demanded an instant 
retraxit, or fight, and a beautiful fight they made of it. Decent 
people did not wear pistols and knives in those days. These two were 
each well pleased with the pluck of the other, and there was an end 
of it. McClanahan was a soldier in the Mexican war, in w^hich he 
participated in the battles of Scott's campaign. He died in July, 
1865, aged forty-six, and a truer gentleman, or more generous spirit, 
or kindlier nature, reposes not in Elmwood. 



JOHN B. MOSELEY 

Was born, we believe, in Richmond, Va. He was educated as a 
typographer in "Father Ritchie's" Enquirer office. He came to 
Memphis about the year 1835, and afterward was proprietor of the 
Eagle and Enquirer, edited by Jere. Clemens and Solon Borland — both 
ex-United States Senators. They wrote ably, and Clemens with rare 
brilliancy, but the paper did not flourish, and Mr. Moseley became 
Sheriff of the county. He administered the office with perfect fidelity 
to every public and private trust. He died in October, 1867, fifty-five 
years of age. 



138 Elmwood Cemeteiy. 



JUDGE JOHN A. NOOE 

Was born in Richmond, Va., in 1812. When very young he came 
with his fother to Northern Alabama. He was the first graduate sent 
forth, in 1832, by the once famous University of that State. He read 
law at the same time with the late T. J. Turley, in the ofllice of 
V. D. Barry, at Bolivar. Judge Nooe died in this city December 
16th, 1865, and there was never a member of the bar more admirable 
for manly and Christian virtues, for stainless integrity, for fidelity to 
trusts reposed, or for tireless devotion to tasks of professional duty. 
He was a sound, clear-headed master of his profession, even as in 
social life he was an elegant gentleman. 



R. E. ORNE, 

The agent, through a long period, of a Boston comj)any of land- 
owners in Mississippi, was originally a sea captain, sailing from 
Boston, we believe. In any event he had circumnavigated the globe, 
and was fond of spinning yarns always full of interest. He was well 
educated, a humorist and hon vivant. He was short and stout of 
person, and his face singularly pleasing. Fewer men made more 
friends in a briefer period than R. E. Orne. He made money withal, 
and died in September, 1860, in the sixty-fifth year of his age, as 
thoroughly well esteemed in Memphis as in his native New England 
town. He was an original shareholder in Elmwood. 



PHILIP A. OWEN 

Was a successful merchant of high character, through a series of 
years in New Orleans. He died there of yellow fever, November 3d, 
1853, in the thirty -seventh year of his age. He was a brother of 
Miles Owen, of Memphis. 

CAPT. WM. N. PORTER, 

Served through the Mexican war as captain of a company of cavalry, 
gathered in Memphis, Avhich was a part of the only cavalry regiment 
from Tennessee. He died in New Orleans, on his way home from 
Mexico, in 1847. His remains were interred in Morris Cemetery, and 
removed to Elmwood. 



Biographical Sketches. 139 



POOLEY BROTHERS. 

On lot No. 179, Fowler Section, located in the north-east portion 
of Elmwood Cemetery, and on the north side of the Road of 
Honor, are buried two brothers, William and James Pooley, and 
their brother-in-law, Robert Purdy. All these were natives of Scot- 
land. William Pooley and Robert Purdy came to Memphis in 1854, 
as merchant tailors. James Pooley settled in Memphis in 1859, as a 
jeweler. He established the jewelry store now occupied by F. D. 
Barnum — his brother-in-law and successor. They were steady and 
skillful men in their respective vocations, and being prosperous in 
business, purchased country homes in the vicinity of the city. All 
three, in succession, received fatal injuries by being thrown from 
a buggy while returning home from business after dark. To make 
this remarkable coincidence the more singular, the horse or horses (for 
they were ditfereut) on each occasion took fright and ran off just out- 
side of the old entrenchments. The following are the dates of these 
sad casualties — the first two being in close proximity of time : 

Robert Purdy was thrown April 31st, and died May 1st, 1861. 
William Pooley was thrown July 15th, and died August 27th, 1861. 
James Pooley was thrown March 25th, 1865, and was killed instantly. 

Such was the sad and melancholy coincidence in the death of these 
brothers ! They were true and good men, thoroughly indoctrinated 
into Old Scotia's religious faith, and all who knew them will admit 
that the moral portrait of a good man, drawn by the most sublime of 
all poets, is highly appropriate : 

" Lord, vho 's the happy man that may to thy blest courts repair. 
Not stranger-like to visit them, but to inhabit there ? 
'Tis he whose every thought and deed by rules of virtue moves ; 
Whose generous tongue disdains to speak the thing his heart disproves. 
Who never did a slander forge, his neighbour's fame to wound ; 
Nor hearken to a false report by malice whispered round. 
Who vice in all its pomp and power, can treat with just neglect ; 
And piety, though clothed in rags, religiously respect. 
Who to his plighted vows and trust has ever firmly stood ; 
And though he promises to his loss, he makes his promise good. 
Whose soul in usury disdains his treasure to employ ; 
Whom no rewards can ever bribe the guiltless to destroy. 
The man who, by this steady course, has happiness insured. 
When earth's foundations shake shall stand, by Providence secured." 



140 Elmwood Cemetery. 



THOMAS F. PATTISON, 

Son of Col. George Pattison, was born at Des Moines, Iowa, in 1842. 
He Avas most active and successful in organizing a company of soldiers 
from Memphis, that never, through the war, lost its identity, or e^'prii 
die corps — the Bluff City Grays. Mustered into service as orderly 
sergeant of this company, Avhich became part of the immortal One 
Hundred and Fifty-fourth Tennessee Regiment, he served through the 
Kentucky campaign, participated in the battles of Shiloh, and of 
Richmond, Ky., where Gen. Bull Nelson owed overwhelming defeat 
mainly to the conduct of this body of soldiers, and to the skill of 
Preston Smith, its colonel, then, we believe, commanding a brigade. 
By young Pattisou's hand the Confederate flag was first unfurled from 
the summit of the State House, at Frankfoi't, Ky. He became 
captain of his company, and, transferred with it, as part of McDonald's 
Battalion, to Gen. Forrest's Division, particiimted in every subsequent 
conflict in which Gen. Forrest was a central figure. Constant devotion 
to duty, and the hardships of camp life were fatal to his health and 
strength. He died in 1868, the most amiable and courtly of gentle- 
men, even as he was the most daring and resolute of soldiers. His 
younger brother, Robert F., was captured in New Orleans in 1862, 
was paroled because of impaired health, and, gunboats holding the 
river, he sailed for Memphis by way of Boston. He died in the latter 
■city in 1862. Another brother of the two above named fell, a 
sergeant of the Bluff City Grays, on the battlefield of Shiloh, and a 
fourth brother was accidentally killed in Memphis by a rocket fired by 
an unfortunate youth. The stick struck the knee joint, and, from the 
effects of the painful wound, young Pattison died the next day, De- 
cember 25th, 18G8, in the eighteenth year of his age. 



CAPT. ED. E. PORTER 

Was born and reared in Memphis, his father. Col. Ethel H. Porter, 
having resided in the city more than forty years. Capt. Porter was 
educated especially that he might occupy the pulpit of the Presby- 
terian Church. He Avas an excellent scholar, and effective preacher. 
When war raged he became the leader of a cavalry company. He 
was as distinguished for his personal heroism as for generosity and 
truthfulness. He died in October, 1867, aged thirty-six. 



Biographical Six etches. 141 



MAJOR JAMES PENN, 

Born in Lynchburg, Virginia, was the famous banker of his time in 
Memphis, and leading Mason of Tennessee, died July 21st, 1870, 
seventy-six years of age. He was a bank officer, either president or 
cashier, for thirty-five or forty years. When he was growing old, and 
still serving the Planters Bank of Tennessee, he discovered that he 
had written the words "James Penn" so constantly, through a long 
business life, that the particular nerves and muscles exerted to shape 
the letters constituting the name, refused to perform the task. He 
could write any words save the two, " James Penn." His purity of 
purpose, conduct and character, were never impeached, and the 
Angeroua Lodge of Masons, which he served so long and faithfully, 
will never suffer his memory to die. 



COL. R. A. PINSON 

Made Memphis his home in 1866. He came from Mississippi, where 
he often served in the State Legislature. He commanded a famous 
cavalry regiment during the war between the States, and was certainly 
one of the most popular officers in the Confederate army. After the 
cessation of hostilities he was elected a member of the Federal Con- 
gress from Eastern Mississippi, but was not suffered to take his seat. 
He became a most successful merchant in Memphis, where he died at 
his lodgings in the Peabody Hotel, May 17th, 1873, aged forty-five. 
He had served two terms as President of the Memphis Chamber of 
Commerce, and won as great a degree of poj)ularity here as he had 
achieved in Mississippi. There have been few men as faultless, in all 
the relations of life, as R. A, Pinson. 



J. M. PROVINE, 

A real estate broker, was distinguished for his inflexible integrity. 
When a delicate trust affecting the interests of widows or minors, was 
to be executed by an agent of a local court, J. M. Provine's services 
were commonly invoked. He not only determined justly the value of 
real property, but did right from instinct. He was anything rather 
than voluble in assigning reasons for his decisions, but was always 
just. He was a devout Cumberland Presbyterian, illustrating his 
faith in his daily words and deeds, and at last in his death, which 
occurred in 1872, in the fifty-ninth year of his age. 



142 Elmwood Cemetery. 



WILLIAM PERSON 

The orthography of the ohl Huguenot name has been somewhat 
changed, but the family retained peculiarities of the exiled French 
Protestants, which were illustrated in the conduct and character of 
Mr. Person. A recluse in habits, he preferred the deep repose and 
silence of swamps and forests to the busy din and excitements of city 
life. He "was wont to say, when wandering over his broad acres, just 
south of Memphis, that there was more beauty, poetry and attractive- 
ness, and more value, in his eyes, in the grand old oaks that bent their 
boughs above his modest homestead, than in the costliest abodes of 
metropolitan opulence. In the deep solitudes of five thousand acres, 
which he owned in a single tract, he lived most plainly and frugally. 
His clothing was homespun ; his food the product of his farm and 
garden. He read many books, and through a long life of solitude, 
rarely broken save by negro servants, he gathered stores of curious 
and varied information, of the extent and character of which they 
little dreamed Avho knew only the rude exterior of the eccentric old 
man. Born in Warren county, North Carolina, he came to Tennes- 
see in 1818, and fixed his residence a few miles south of Memphis. 
The military warrants, on which the Person's grant was based, were 
located by the father and brothers — William, Tom, Dick and Ben 
Person, in 1808. They built the first grist mill that crushed corn in 
Shelby county. This historical building stood on Nonconnah creek, 
four hundred yards below the Hernando road. Mr. Person went back 
and forth to and from his old home in North Carolina sixty-five times 
on horse-back. He brought to this county the first cotton seed ever 
planted Avithin its limits — transporting two or three sacks over the 
mountains to the banks of the Mississippi in a classic North Carolina 
go-cart, modeled, as our readers know, after the fashion of old Roman 
chariots ; and there were never nobler old Romans than the pioneers 
of Tennessee, who came in these chariots from North Carolina. 
There were no cotton gins in those days — nimble fingers doing the 
work of these machines. White people of the county were most 
anxious to secure cotton seed, and Tilman Bettis, Sol. Rozell, and 
others, picked cotton, and then with their fingers picked out the seed, 
half the latter belonging by contract to Mr. Person. The seed were 
measured in Rozell's shoe. These facts become historically important 
when we reflect that Shelby county and its ca})ital has greater wealth 
grown exclusively from the seed of which we tell, than perhaps any 
equal area of country on the globe. 



Biographical Sketches. 143 



Mr. Person acquired habits of research and of reading of wliieli hi^i 
fellow-men knew little. Especially was he addicted to the study of 
botany ; and his love for trees of rare symmetry, of towering branches 
and rich foliage, was a singular and the strongest passion he indulged. 
He loved them, 

since their summits all 

hues take. 
Veiled in filmy haze at morn they lie ; 
At noon in lavender ; at eve they shake 
Their purple shadows on the stream below. 
Toning a scene they scarcely deign to show. 

He gave generously to the poor, and yet spoke harshly of idleness, 
the fruitful parent, he alleged, of poverty. He died in this city in 
1865, in his seventy-second year, having been expelled his home, 
])lundered by Federal soldiers. He never recovered from the effects 
of personal maltreatment then endured. 



JOHN POPE 

"Was a Georgian l>y birth, and a pupil of the famous Moses Waddell, 
with A. B. Longstreet. Subsequently he was an undergraduate of 
the University of Nashville with E. H. Foster and John Bell. He 
was gi-aduated at Yale, a classmate of John M. Clayton, United 
States Senator from Delaware, and of Isaac Holmes, of South Caro- 
lina, Thomas A. Marshall, of Kentucky, and John D. Eccles, of 
North Carolina. He married Miss Louisa Rembert, of Georgia, and 
removed to Alabama, where he represented Madison county in the Leg- 
islature. He became a citizen of Memphis, and was eminently useful as 
President of the Agricultural Association of Shelby County. It was 
commonly said of him, that in view of Southern modes of life, and 
peculiar social institutions, he made agriculture as nearly perfect as 
was possible. He and George L. Holmes, and Samuel Bond, each of 
this county, received medals from the British World's Fair, in 1852, 
for the best upland cotton exhibited. Prior to 1834, when first the 
Memphis and Charleston road was planned, in a convention at Bolivar, 
he and Gen. E. P. Gaines were of a committee to inquire into the 
■ways and means of its construction. He was a member of the Mem- 
phis Southern Commercial Convention of 1845, over which John C. 
Calhoun j^resided, and submitted a report, afterward widely published, 
urging the necessity for the diversification of Southern industrial 
pursuits. Prior to this, in 1832, he was nominated, by a large. 



144 Elmwood Cejnetery. 



popular assemblage, a candidate for the 8t:ite Constitutional Conven- 
tion. He declined to accept the office. He was, in 1851, induced, 
by the leading citizens of the city and county, to become a candidate 
for the Legislature, and was defeated by Major M. B. Winchester by 
only fifteen votes. He was, through a long series of years. President 
of the Union Bank, of which we may never see its like again, and 
very certainly no banking institution was ever blest with a President 
who was a more felicitous colloquist, or more graceful, elegant gentle- 
man. He died March 27th, 1865, aged seventy-one years. 

REV. H. S. PORTER 

Was born in 1816 in Butler county, Kentucky, and educated in the 
common schools of the country. He was licensed to preach in 1835, 
and ordained at Glasgow in 1837, to the work of the Gospel, by the 
Cumberland Presbyterian Church. Through three or four years he 
was an itinerant preacher. Then he took charge of the chui'ch at 
Fayetteville, Tenn., and after this traversed the Southern States, 
rendering himself beloved, as his eloquence was everywhere applauded 
and admired. la 1843 he took charge of a chui'ch in Philadeli^hia, 
and in 1851 left that city for Memphis. He remained here till 1855, 
one of the most popular and successful preachers Memphis has ever 
known, when he fell a victim to the epidemic of that year. Though 
his early intellectual training was defective, yet by steady, persistent 
toil he became one of the foremost scholars of his time in this city. 
He died universally lamented, as he was admired and beloved. 

DAVID PARK, 

A native of Ireland, came to Memphis thirty-five years ago. He was 
the first to establish successfully and permanently the business of 
cotton brokerage in Memphis, first taking cotton samples from this to 
Eastern cities. This was in 1845. For a series of years he was the 
most extensive and successful operator in the cotton market, and a 
daring operator he was, and the revulsions of his fortunes were 
frequent and violent. No one ever questioned his integrity. He 
paid to the last farthing, and was never disi^irited, Avhatever his luck. 
He was ever distinguished by his kindness of manner and imperturb- 
able good humor, and few men have lived in Memj)his who were more 
warmly greeted everywhere by a greater number of people than David 
Park, He died in 1856, aged fifty-nine. 



Biographical Sketches. 145 



WILLIAM KING POSTON 

Was born at Clarksville, Tennessee, whence he came to Memphis, 
more than thirty years ago. He rose steadily in the ranks of his pro- 
fession until, at the date of his death, there were few if any attorneys 
or barristers deemed his superiors. He was an accurate, logical 
thinker, and spoke with great facility. His manner, when addressing 
a jury, was easy and graceful, his voice smooth, even musical ; his 
gesticulation natural and attractive ; his expression of face eminently 
pleasing. He was drawn at last into the political arena, and in con- 
junction with Sam. P. Walker, in 1866, represented Shelby county 
and the city of Memphis in the lower branch of the State Legislature. 
It is needless to say that abler, worthier men have rarely if ever occu- 
pied seats in the capitol of Tennessee. Mr. Poston's habits were 
faultless. He was a devout Christian, devoted to books, and especially 
to professional learning. The bar of Memphis has not lost a worthier 
member, or society a more agreeable gentleman, or the State a better 
citizen. He died in 1866, in the forty -seventh year of his age. 



COL. WM. B. ROSS 

AYas born in 1831, and soon after attaining his majority became a 
successful merchant and broker in Memphis. Though only thirty 
years of age when the war between the States was begun, he had 
already won eminence among tradesmen, and was deemed a wonder- 
fully clearheaded operator in the money, and bond, and cotton 
markets. He grew rich rapidly. When hostilities began he was 
active in creating and organizing tlie Second Tennessee Regiment, of 
which he was made Lieutenant Colonel. He was a participant in the 
battles of Belmont and Shiloh, and distinguished for his fearlessness. 
When the term of enlistment of his regiment expired, he was 
appointed Lispector General on the staff of Major Gen., afterward 
Lieut. Gen. A. P. Stewart. He was serving in this capacity when 
the battle of Murfreesboro was fought, December 31st, 1862. There 
he fell mortally wounded. His division had been engaged nearly the 
whole day, and everywhere Col. Ross was conspicuous for gallantry 
and skillful conduct. He died of his wounds, not supposed at first to 
be mortal, January 2d, 1863, and was first interred at Murfreesboro, 
while Bragg's army was moving slowly, wearily, half starved, from the 
place. His remains were transferred, a few years ago, to Elmwood. 
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146 Elmwood Cemetery. 



JAMES ROSE, 

A Virginian by birth, came to Memphis nearly forty years aga;. 
He was soon made a Justice of the Peace, and occupied an office at 
the corner of Main and JefJerson streets, through a long series of 
years. He was distinguished for his simplicity of character, honesty^ 
and truthfulness, and was one of the most popular local public officers 
ever known in Memj^his. He died in his buggy, on his way fror» 
Raleigh to Memphis, of heart disease. The old citizens of Memphis 
were deeply grieved, and surely they never followed a purer or better 
man to Elmwood. Through a long period he was Senior Warden of 
Calvary Church — a position he filled at the time of his death, in, 
April, 1855. He was about seventy years of age. 



LEWIS R. RICHARDS 

Was, we believe, a Kentuckian by birth. He came to Tennessee- 
many years ago, and, when first known to the writer, was cashier of 
the Branch Bank of Tennessee, at Somerville. vSubsequently he- 
filled with unmixed satisfaction to the public, and to the stockholders,, 
the same position in the Branch Union Bank, at Memphis. He 
became City Register more than a quarter of a century ago, and had 
been re-elected by each successive city council until the people 
believed he had a fee simple title to the place. He deserved it. 
There was never an officer that executed a public trust with rarer 
fidelity, or filled a position more satisfactorily to the public. He died 
while holding this office in the fall of 1873, about seventy years of age;- 



R. V. RICHARDSON 

Came to Memphis, a lawyer, in about the year 1845. He was- 
associated, through a series of years, with J. P. Caldwell, and 
afterward became a contractor and built levees in Arkansas and 
Mississippi. He commanded a regiment, and at one time, we believe,, 
bore a brigadier's baton. He conducted an irregular border warfare 
in Tennessee, Missouri and Arkansas. After peace he returned to his 
original jjursuits, and was assa.ssinated not far from New Madrid, in 
Missouri. He was removed to Elmwood from Missouri in January^ 
1870. He was forty-nine years of age. 



Biographical Sketches. 147 



REV. WM. C. ROBB, 

Who died near Memphis in 1858, in tlie forty-third year of his age, 
was born at Gallatin, Tennessee. His father, James Robb, was one 
of the first merchants that ever traded in Mcmjihis. The son of whom 
we speak, was educated as a lawyer, and practiced his profession until 
1847. Having served through the war with Mexico, he became an 
itinerant Methodist preacher, and one more earnest or devoted, has 
rarely served this branch of the church militant. As an evidence of 
his personal worth, he was retained in their service by the churches 
of this city, in violation of the customs of Methodism, for several 
successive years. Here he died, filling the place and actively dis- 
charging the duties of Presiding Elder. The people of this city, who 
knew and loved Mr. Robb, sympathized with the churches that deeply 
and widely deplored his untimely death. 



SOLOMON ROZELL 

Was an original character, even as were his intimate associates — Til- 
man Bettis, and Anderson B. Carr. The three were of the first white 
inhabitants of this county of Shelby, and at one time constituted the 
County Court — at least, Bettis and Rozell were members of this body. 
They were also managers of the system of schools then in vogue, and 
though neither could read or write, their native intelligence, shrewd- 
ness and tact made their services in this behalf eminently satisfactory 
to the people. It was the province of these men, who had never seen 
a surveyor's chart or theodolite, to define the route of public highways. 
They were practised woodsmen, and the most skillful engineers of sub- 
sequent years never found reason to condemn the acts, in this behalf, 
of the two frontiersmen, who opened the highw^ay from Memphis to 
Raleigh and Somerville. Mr. Rozell died in 1856, seventy-nine years 
of age. 

VOL. P. ROGERS 

AVas born four miles east of Memphis, his father, one of the old 
citizens of Shelby county, having been a proprietor of the Clayton 
Place. The son, of whom we speak, was distinguished for his skill 
and courage as an ofiicer and soldier, and for his generosity and 
truthfulness as a citizen and friend. He died February 16th, 1869, 
in the thirty-ninth year of his age. 



148 Ebnwood Cemetery. 



F. Y. ROCKETT, 

An Alabamian by birth, was educated for the bar, and practised law 
some years in Mississippi. He then became the conductor of a news- 
paper in that State. Afterward he edited the Evening Ledger, of 
Memphis, through a series of years. He wrote smoothly, often beau- 
tifully. Especially were his tastes, as a Uterateur, adapted to those of 
educated women. The Ledger prospered under Rockett's administra- 
tion, even as it does to-day. He was the writer of excellent verses, 
and now and then produced a poem that deserves to live. His versifi- 
cation of Gen. Beauregard's order, asking the churches of the South 
to send their bells to the foundries that they might be cojiverted into 
cannon, was published everywhere in this country, and even in the 
best British magazines. He died in 1872, about fifty years of age. 



MAJ. WM. RUFFIN, 

One of the original shareholders in Elmwood Cemetery, was born in 
King AVilliam county, Va., 1797. He served through the war of 
1812-15, and became a citizen of Somerville in 1832, Avhere he was a 
director of the Branch Bank of Tennessee. He came to Memphis in 
1848, and established the original gas-works company, of which he 
was President till he died in 1857. He was deemed a man of stain- 
less integrity, of great energy and excellent practical good sense. 



DR. NAT. RAGLAND 

Came to Memphis from Kentucky. By birth he was, we believe, a 
Virginian. He never practiced his profession in this city, but became 
largely interested, as a land-owner, in the fortunes of Memphis. He 
was about sixty-five years of age at the date of his death. 



M. SCHILLING, 

Born in 1819, in Dedikofen, Baden, Germany, was a citizen of Mem- 
phis for twenty-one years. His bakery through a long period was a 
famous institution in northern districts of the city. He was distin- 
guished for his generosity to the unfortunate, and his death from 
yellow fever in November, 1873, was greatly deplored. 



Biographical Sketches. 149 



DANIEL SAFFARANS 

Was born in the Valley of Virginia, and served as a soldier at the 
age of sixteen in the war of 1812. He made Gallatin, Tennessee, his 
home about 1820, and soon afterward became potent among the 
Chickasaw Indians. He induced them to cross the Mississippi, and 
aided in transferring them to their present domains. He effected a 
lasting peace between the Chickasaws and Choctaws, who had been 
always at enmity. He spent many years with these tribes, and in 
managing their affairs at the Federal Capital. While in Washington 
he became interested with George Law in steamship lines. He 
supplied the Government with arms, built bonded warehouses and 
lighthouses, was a contractor to finish the Navy Yard, at Memphis, 
paved the streets of Memphis with gravel, and built many public and 
private buildings. He established a furniture factory, which was 
sold at his death, and afterward burned. Through thirty years Daniel 
Saftarans, though never an aspirant for office, Aviekled great political 
influence in Tennessee. His head was massive, his intellect strong 
and active, his capacity for labor great, and energy tireless. He 
died sixteen years ago in this city. 



COL. WM. STRONG 

Was a native, we believe, of Georgia. He, with the rest of his 
father's family, were descending the Mississippi in a flatboat, when the 
violent earthquakes of 1811-12 occurred at New Madrid. The flat- 
boat occupied by the pioneers was wrested from its moorings, and 
swept backward during the night many miles toward the Ohio. The 
amazement of those on board the " broadhorn " was boundless, and 
the strange incident was often mentioned by Col. Strong. He was a 
member of the great mercantile firm of his time in Memphis, that of 
Dixon, Strong & Co., and built much of the roadway, under a con- 
tract with the Government, across the lowlands from Memphis to the 
St. Francis river. This firm, about the years 1836-40, issued change 
notes, which for a time constituted the greater part of the currency of 
Memphis. He retired, at length, to his home three miles northeast of 
the city, and became the "model fiirmer"of Shelby county. His 
perfect integrity was never impeached. He was about seventy years 
of age at the time of his death. 



150 Elmwood Cemetery. 



MATTIE STEPHENSON 

Came hither in 1873, when pestilence swept away multitudes, to serve 
the poor and helpless and plague-stricken. It was a rare enthusiasm 
and an extraordinary impulse which induced the young and admirable 
woman to abandon home and friends in a distant northern State that 
she might minister to the wants of strangers. There was a broader 
philanthropy pi-actised by her than statesmen have recognized in legis- 
lation or Christians in the practice of the divinest precepts of the 
church. Florence Nightingale had served the sick and wounded of 
armies and battlefields. History caught the name and fame syllabled 
the story of her illustrious deeds. Mattie Stephenson came unherald- 
ed. She only asked that she might serve the poor and helpless. She 
sought no reward save the consciousness of doing good. Of fame she 
never dreamed. Of money she brought none, but bore her life in her 
hand and tendered it to the needy and suffering. It was said of her 
that the name of this poor, unknown girl who to-day sleeps in Elm- 
wood belongs not to Memphis ; not to the little village which so recent- 
ly knew her ; it belongs to the world, to the records of a heroism to 
which that of the conqueror of empires seems the merest devotion to 
duty. Yet it is in our power, as it is our duty as a people to whom she 
came, a ministering angel, when the very air bred pestilence from 
which many thousands fled, and for whom her life was willingly 
sacrificed, to commemorate her virtues and her devotion to scourge- 
stricken sufferers. Her memory is enshrined in our hearts. But let 
us hasten to mark with a monumental shaft the sacred spot in Elm- 
wood upon which the shimmering rays of the sun descend, to brighten 
with their roseate hues the little mound that rests so lightly upon the 
bosom of our dead heroine. 

The Elmwood Association have appropriated a lot that a proper 
monument may be erected in attestation of her virtues and worth. 



FRANCIS SHOEMAKER, 

Through a long series of years, was a merchant at Holly Springs, 
Miss. He grew rich, retired from active life, and made Memphis his 
home fifteen years ago. He died in 1872, aged eighty-three years. 



Biographical Sketches. 1 5 i 



GEN. PRESTON SMITH 

Was a native, we believe, of Giles or Maury county, Tennessee. Pie 
tjecame" a citizen of Memphis in 1850, and practiced his profession, 
that of a lawyei-, for some years, with a share of assiduity. . He had 
..almost abandoned it, however, when the clangor of arms gave a new 
direction to his thoughts, fired all his energies and latent ambition, 
.and inspired a degree of enthusiasm never before illustrated in his 
conduct. He left Memphis, in the spring of 1861, to serve under 
•Oens. Polk and Pillow, commanding a regiment never surpassed in 
the intelligence of its men or in their worth as soldiei's, illustrated 
rafterward on countless battlefields. The regiment was ever known as 
the One Hundred and Fifty-fourth Tennessee, the number given it 
■under the old militia organization of the State. It fought every- 
where — at Belmont, Corinth, Murfreesboro, Richmond, Ivy., where it 
won its proudest laurels, at Chattanooga, and at Chickamauga, where 
Preston Smith, then a Brigadier, fell at the head of his troops. His 
:StafF officers, Harris and Donelson, and others, went down at the same 
instant, and braver men, or truer soldiers, never sacrificed life for 
lienor and fame. Gen. Smith was interred in Atlanta, but his remains 
.-after peace, were transferred to Elm wood. He was strongly and com- 
pactly built, below the medium hight, of infinite good humor, when 
not playing the part of an officer, and every inch a soldier. He was, 
-.at the time of his death, about forty years of age. 



GRANVILLE D. SEARCY, 

Born and educated at Nashville, was for many years a most successful 
lawyer at Memphis. He resided several years in Tipton county, rep- 
resenting it in the lower, as, afterwards, this county in the upper 
branch of the State Legislature. In both Houses he was deemed the 
leader of his party, and its strongest thinker and speaker. He resided 
through a brief period in Somerville, and came to Memphis, perhaps 
an 1846 or 1847, where he practiced his profession, save when a mem- 
ber of the Senate, most assiduously. In his intercoui'se with the 
people, his bearing, manners and conversation were eminently pleasing. 
He was of Falstaffian proportions, of infinite good humor; and espe- 
-eially were young lawyers, Avhom he constantly served and instructed, 
•devoted to the generous and kindly Granville D. Searcy. He died 
.Pecember, 1853, about fifty years of age. 



152 Elmwood Cemetery. 



JUDGE THOMAS R. SMITH, 

Born in Maine, November 27, 1830, was graduated by Bowdoin 
College at the age of nineteen. He became at once a school teacher 
at Bolivar, Tenn., and meanwhile studied law under the instructions 
of Judge Austin Miller. He was admitted to the bar, became 
Robert H. Wood's partner in 1852, and was eminently successful in 
fame and money-making. In 1862 he became a citizen of Memphis, 
and in 1866 Judge of the City Law Court. He soon resigned the 
position, and began at once a most lucrative practice. For several 
years he was President of the Memphis School Board, and did as 
much as any other citizen to popularize and make the system useful. 
For some years, and at the time of his death, he was attorney for the 
Bank of Tennessee, engaged in liquidating its accounts and adjusting 
its liabilities, a most laborious and responsible position. His physical 
energies were overtaxed, his health failed, and in March, 1872, he 
met death with that unquailing courage with which he encountered 
the duties of life. When told that death was inevitable, he replied 
calmly, " I am not afraid to die. I bow to the inevitable." He left 
his wife, a daughter of Pitser Miller, and his six children, a rich 
heritage, in an honored name, and noble example. A fir tree, 
transplanted from groves that made attractive the hills and valleys of 
his childhood's home, casts it shadows, and stands a tireless watcher 
above his grave. A shaft of granite, cut from rock-ribbed hills of 
Maine, tells wanderers in Elmwood where this truest and worthiest of 
the children of New England rests — 

" Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch 
About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams." 

Maine has given the South two citizens, of whom, when we cease to 
boast, the South will be unworthy of their fame and of her own. 
S. S. Prentiss and Judge Smith were only alike in that they were 
great ; the one, in his vices as in his transcendant genius ; the other, 
in the pellucid clearness of his logical intellect, perfect moral purity^ 
and faultless personal conduct and character. Judge Smith deserves 
the more lasting honors at the hands of posterity. Him we may 
reverence; Prentiss we can only admire in rapt wonder. 



LOUIS SERVATUS, 

Born at Hezrat, Reihnprovinz, Germany, in the year 1819, came to 
the United States in 1846, and after residing for a time in Phila- 
delphia, went to Baltimore. Here he conducted a prosperous businessr 



Biographical Sketches. 153 



as a leather-dealer, and was accounted one of the most estimable Ger- 
mans in the city. From Baltimore he went to Marietta, Georgia, and 
there having suffered great losses, because of the late war, Avas forced 
to change his domicil, and came to this city. After having faithfully 
served here as a policeman for eight years, he died of yellow fever, 
October 26, 1878, aged 54 years. 



JOHN F. SALE, 

And his twin brother Thomas, were born in Amherst county, Virginia, 
1823. In 1829 the family migrated to Kentucky, where he was 
instructed in books mainly by an older brother, a member of the bar. 
This brother bequeathed his library to John F. Sale, then only twelve 
years of age. At nineteen he entered the law office of Judge Arch- 
ibald Dixon, and at the age of twenty-one was admitted to the bar, 
and almost immediately elected Attorney for Union county, holding 
the office till he resigned it in 1849, when he became a citizen of 
Memphis. A stranger in Memphis, and with a family to support, he 
was for a time the editor of a Whig newspaper and naval storekeeper, 
with a salary of $2,000 per annum. In 1853 he was elected Pros- 
ecuting Attorney, filling the office one terra, Avhen he was beaten in a 
contest for it, by nineteen votes. From this time forth he made the 
criminal practice a specialty till his death, November 19th, 1872. 
Though his denunciations of perjury and other villainy were always 
terrible, he was rarely involved in personal difficulties. A German 
shoemaker once attempted to kill him, but forgot to cock his pistol, 
and was mercilessly knocked down. He had a quarrel with a gentleman 
of Memphis, and was shot through the knee. His good humor was 
as infinite as his capacity for violent invective was without parallel. 
His anger, easily aroused, was short-lived, and he was utterly incapable 
of malice. His sympathies were easily excited by human suffering, 
and his generosity of opinion and action was boundless. His perception 
of the ridiculous was most keen, and his capacity to present a grave 
proposition in most ludicrous aspects was absolutely marvelous. He 
spoke with great fluency and earnestness, and was often brilliant and 
eloquent. There was genius written in his face, in his lofty brow and 
flashing eyes, and many, many years must elapse before the lawyers of 
Memphis forget to tell of the rare, original, umque speeches and 
witticisms of John F. Sale. 



154 Elmwood Cemetery. 



E. P. STEWART, 

An excellent gentleman, for many years a citizen of Memphis, and 
President of Elmwood Cemetery Association at the time of his death. 
He died February 8th, 1859. In attestation of his admirable personal 
worth, the Board of Managers of the Cemetery have ordered a proper 
monument to be erected over his grave. 

At a meeting of the Board of Managers, held on the 8th February, 
1859, the following resolutions were unanimously adopted : 

Resolved, That we have heard this morning with astonishment and 
unfeigned regret the announcement of the sudden death of E. P. 
Stewart, Esq., late President of the Elmwood Cemetery. 

Resolved, That this corporation, in common "with the entire commu- 
nity, have sustained an irreparable loss in the sudden death of a citizen 
so universally loved and admired ; so gentle, yet so true and fiiithful 
to every trust; enterprising, public spirited and fair in all his trans- 
actions, he merited, as he received in this community, of which he 
has been long a most valued citizen, the title of an honest man. 

Resolved, That we tender to his family, so suddenly stricken down 
with the most heartrending grief at the loss of their late head and 
protector, our sincere condolence and sympathy. 

Resolved, That the stockholders of the Cemetery be requested to 
attend his remains in a body to their last resting place, which he so 
much delighted to beautify and adorn. 



ANDREW STEWART, 

A Virginian, born 1788, came, when a boy, with his father to 
Nashville. Subsequently he was a citizen of Hickman, and, later, of 
Madison, removing to Shelby county in 1851. He was the oldest 
living subscriber to the Appeal, having become such with the first 
issue of that newspaper. In taste, habits of thinking, conduct and 
character, he was a worthy type of western pioneers. Few or none 
are now living of his class, and living links that bound us to the last 
century, as this volume attests, are all broken. Even the children of 
these brave old men are growing old and forgetful of fireside stories to 
which they were wont to listen when patriarchs, like Andrew Stewart, 
gave simple recitals of lives of toil and daring deeds. There are 
many living descendants of this honest old citizen. They show in 
their intercourse with men that precepts of honest worth, inculcated 
by example, are never lost in shaping the character and deeds of 
posterity. 



Biographical Sketches . 155 



J. T. SWAYNE, 

A nephew of Justice Swayne, of the Supreme Court of the United 
States, was born, we believe in Paris, Tennessee. He was of Virgin- 
ian parentage, and may have been a native of that State. He made 
Memphis his home about thirty-five years ago, and soon won influence. 
He was a sober, industrious, pains-taking hiwyer, a voluble speaker, 
thoroughly trustworthy, and a Christian gentleman. He was devoted 
to the duties imposed by his church, and was the straightest of his 
sect. The First Presbyterian church, which Judge Swayne served so 
long and well as an elder, sustained in his death an irreparable loss. 
He became the judge of the Criminal Court, and served in this capacity 
Avhen Memphis was under the domination of Federal bayonets. No 
threat of power ever caused Judge Swayne to swerve from the plain 
path of duty, and he enjoyed popular confidence to an extraordinary 
extent. He delivered the annual address before the Old Folks Asso- 
ciation in 1873, and said, after reciting the virtues of members who 
had died during the year, that there were those listening to him 
who would never meet again on a like occasion. He was the first to 
die. Within a month he rested in Elmwood. His death, caused by 
yellow fever, occurred October 11th, 1873, in the fifty-fourth year of 
his age. 



RICHARD D. STARR 

Was born in New London, Connecticut, at the period of his birth, the 
peculiar abiding-place of whaling-vessel sea captains. Mr. Starr was 
soon afloat and drifting in early manhood along the coast of CliUi, 
on a whaling voyage, soon found himself a captive and his vessel 
appropriated by the semi-savage people. He was made a slave in 
Valparaiso and acted as herdsman for a somewhat indulgent master. 
He took advantage of night, secured a little fishing smack and put to 
sea alone. Fortunately he was picked up by a Yankee schctoner, and 
when he came home was never more so fond of a seafaring life. 
Memphis contained no truer Christian or more rigidly honest, upright 
citizen than R. D. Starr. He was boi"n with the century and died 
in 1872, a reverend deacon of the First Presbyterian Ciiurch. He 
came to Memphis in 1837, and during his long citizenship there was 
never the slightest aspersion to sully his spotless fame. 



156 Elmwood Cemetery. 



GEORGE W. SMITH 

A native of Wilson county, Tenn., was an ancient lawyer of ancient 
days in Memphis. In any event he was a Director and Attorney for 
the old Farmers and Merchants Bank, a famous institution of its time. 
In 1849-50 he was, for a brief period, treasurer of the Memphis and 
Charleston R. R. Co., then recently organized. He was careless in 
business matters, and once, when the postoffice was on Madison street, 
where the First National Bank now stands, Mr. Smith, who was 
wonderfully obese, was standing in the midst of a crowd. His hat 
was blown away. It was the treasury of the railway company, and its 
contents were some $3,000 in bank notes. His efforts to recover the 
flying notes were wonderful for a man of his weight. He lost only a 
few dollars; but retired from the treasurership. He did not like it. 
He was an excellent, practical lawyer, and was, personally, highly 
esteemed. He died in October, 1856, about fifty years of age. 



HENRY STRATTON, 

Born in 1789 in Bedford county, Virginia, became a citizen of 
Simpson county, Kentucky, in 1813. He was appointed by Governor 
Slaughter a magistrate of his county in 1819, and held the office for 
many years, till, by virtue of seniority, he became sheriff". He filled 
this position several terms. In 1841 he became a citizen of Holly 
Springs, and in 1846 removed to Memphis. Here he managed, till 
his death in 1849, a most prosperous commercial house. He was 
somewhat formal in social intercourse, grave and dignified, but his 
friends were many and devoted to him. His excellent practical good 
sense, and confessed integrity, won him a profitable trade. He left an 
invaluable " good will " to his successors on Front Row, and a spotless 
name to his children. 



DR. LEWIS SHANKS, 

A Virginian by birth, came to Memphis about the year 1835. He 
assumed at once a high position in professional life ; became a pro- 
fessor for a time in the Memphis Medical College, and was esteemed 
an admirable lecturer. Many of his theses were published in medical 
journals, and few physicians of his day were more widely known, or 



Biographical Sketches. 157 



highly esteemed, in this and adjacent States. He was one of the 
founders of Calvary Church, and died one of its wardens. His gen- 
erosity as a physician to the poor was boundless. His death in October 
1861, was caused by the accidental substitution of morphine for 
quinine by a servant, when the Doctor had asked for the latter drug. 



THOMAS J. TURLEY, 

A most successful lawyer of Memphis, was born near Alexandria, 
Virginia, in 1807. "When very young he came to Middle Tennessee. 
He taught school at Clarksville, afterward at Bolivar, in Hardeman 
county, where he read law with Judge Barry, was admitted to the 
bar, and soon afterward opened an office at Raleigh. He came to 
Memphis about the year 1840, and in 1843 married Flora C. Battle. 
He became the partner of Judge Archibald Wright in 1850, the firm 
conducting a most lucrative practice until Mr. Turley's death in 1854. 
He was below medium hight, slender, of dark skin, black eyes, 
straight, regular features, and of most kindly, prepossessing appear- 
ance and manners. He devoted himself Avith unsurpassed assiduity to 
the prosecution of professional tasks. Turley Section, in which he is 
buried, was so called in honor of the subject of this brief sketch. He was 
one of the original stockholders and founders of Elmwood Cemeteiy. 

His brother, AVm. B. Turley, was perhaps naturally, and because of 
his extraordinary attainments, one of the greatest lawyers whose 
genius has adorned the annals of Tennessee's jurisprudence. His 
decisions, while a member of the Supreme Court of this State, are 
models of perspicuity and resistless logic. He was induced to resign 
his place on the Supreme bench and become Judge of the Common 
Law and Chancery Court of Memphis, the citizens of Memphis 
having doubled the salary given by law by private subscriptions. He 
grasped propositions and solved questions that vexed others, instantly, 
and in the fewest words expounded the most difficult problems. His 
massive head seemed the very abode of the lightning, such was the 
vividness, brilliancy and quickness of his strokes of genius. In 
personal appearance he was unlike his brother. He was somewhat 
corpulent, and of fairer complexion, and a much larger man. He 
was leaning on a walking stick at Raleigh ; it broke in twain ; he fell, 
and a sharp point of the broken cane entered his body. He died in 
the very noonday of his intellectual greatness, ])elovcd by the bar, 
even as he was admired of all men. 



158 Elmwood Cemetery. 



COLONEL JAMES TREZEVANT 

Was of a Huguenot family expelled from France by the revocation 
of the edict of Nantes. They found a home in South Carolina. The 
father of James Trezevant was taken prisoner by the British in the 
old war of American Independence and liberated in Virginia, where 
he was married. His oldest son, of whom Ave tell, Avas born near 
Petersburg in 1 783. He was educated mainly by his father, a graduate 
of Princeton College, though for a year or longer he AA'as an under- 
graduate of William and Mary College. He became a lawyer, and 
soon Avon a lucrative practice. Having every admirable quality of 
head and heart, he Avas often elected a meml)er of the Legislature, 
and Avas a member of the Constitutional Convention of Virginia of 
1829. He commanded a regiment during the Avar of 1812, called out 
to protect the Virginia coast. He was thrice chosen, during the 
Presidential terms of Monroe and Jackson, to represent his district in 
the Congress of the United States. His health became seriously 
impaired, and in the very midst of progressive good fortune he Avas 
forced to abandon his political career. In 1832 he left Southampton, 
Va., and became a citizen of Tennessee, and in 1837 bought his home 
near Memphis, Avhere he spent the remainder of his life in quiet 
retirement. He died in 1841, in the fifty-eighth year of his age. He 
AA^as generous to his friends and to the unfortunate, and the country 
has never lost a Avorthier citizen. 



DR. WM. J. TUCK, 

Born in Halifax county, Va., February 22d, 1814, was graduated by 
Kenyon College, Ohio, in 1834, and by the Medical Department of 
the University of Pennsylvania in 1838. He came to INIemphis in 
1842, and in 1852 Avas made Secretary of the Board of Health, a 
position he occupied, Avith brief interruptions, till his death in 1859. 
During the year 1858, and till his death, he filled the chair of "Insti- 
tutes of Medicine " in the IMemphis Medical College. He Avas a 
constant contributor to then current professional literature, and pub- 
lished an attractiA'-e little volume, still prized in Sunday-schools, 
entitled " Sabbath Reading." Dr. Tuck's life, as a Christian gentle- 
man, Avas as admirable as his habitual professional skill and conduct. 



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LIEUT. COL. ED. BUTLER TREZEVANT, 

A son of Dr. Lewis C. Trezevant, was born in this, Shelby county, 
Tenn., in 1838, and educated at St. James' College, Maryland. When 
war between the States was begun, he w^as Assistant Circuit Court 
Clerk. He enlisted in the Memphis Light Dragoons, was chosen Third 
Lieutenant, and was first in action in October, 1861, near Paducah, 
and afterward, November 7th, participated in the battle of Belmont. 
His health failed, but restored by a sojourn of a few months in Texas, 
he returned to the army in May, 1862, joined Gen. Forrest at Corinth, 
and was made Sergeant Major, and became Adjutant in June. The 
regiment was soon dissolved, and several of its companies were organ- 
ized as a squadron, of which Trezevant became Major. He partici- 
pated in the battles and skirmishes at Middleburg, Mendon, Britton's 
Lane, luka and Corinth, displaying in camp and on the field the 
highest qualities of a soldier. In February, 1862, with Van Dorn's 
command, he entered Tennessee, having been made Lieutenant Colonel, 
and placed in command of the Tenth Tennessee Cavalry. Leading 
this regiment in a charge, on the 5th of March, 1864, he was mortally 
wounded, a rifle ball penetrating his body. Mrs. Bond, of Spring 
Hill, watched by his bedside with a mother's care and tenderness till 
he died two days afterward. He was tall, slender, lithe, active, grace- 
ful in his manners, of fair complexion, black hair and regular, W'ell 
shaped features. His face beaming with kindliness and intelligence, 
he was one of the most attractive young officers of the army of Ten- 
nessee, and his untimely death was deeply deplored, and especially by 
the followers of Forrest and Van Dorn. 



COLONEL FRAZER TITUS, 

At the time of his death, in 1870, was one of the very oldest citizens 
of Memphis. He came hither from Alabama, though we believe he 
was a native of Eastern Tennessee. He was a grocer when he first 
made Memphis his home, and afterward became a cotton broker and 
prosperous commission merchant. He was eminently successful in 
money making, though a heavy loser by the war between the States. 
In 1861 he was President of the Vigilance Committee of this city, 
and conducted its aflfairs, for one of his excitable temper, with won- 
derful moderation and good sense. Colonel Titus was seventy years 
of age at the time of his demise in June, 1870. 



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JOHN R. TRICE. 

A tasteful monument on the Grand Tour, erected by the citizens of 
Memphis to incomparable, self-sacrificing heroism, marks the grave 
of the heroic pilot of the ill-fated steamer Caroline. The inscription 
on the monument, thus tells the simple but eloquent story : 

John R. Trice, 

Born December loth, 1832, Died March 5th, 1854. 

A tribute to the brave pilot who died at his post, while steering the burning steamer 

Caroline, to the shore. He saved many lives; himself he could not save. 

The gallant Trice, at the post of duty, undaunted, met death. Life 

strove to lure him with her glorious beauty, but he preferred to die, 

rather than to desert honor's cause. His loss was life; his 

gain, the world's applause. His last words were, 

'' Captain Taylor, the tiller rope is burned ! " 

John Kandolph Trice was born at Paris, in this State. An only 
child, he was an orphan from his early youth, and knew only a mother's 
care and guardianship, and a sister's love. In 1840, at the age of eight 
years he came to Memphis, and was bewildered by the majesty of 
the mighty river ; and if the Mississippi be an inland sea, was a sea- 
man from childhood. On board Mississippi steamers, like Mark Twain 
(Clemmons), he filled every subordinate position, and on the 5th of 
March, 1854, was pilot on the Caroline when the hapless little steamer, 
in the midst of a shoreless river, the whole country at that time 
being submerged, took fire. Trice had said not long before, to Captain 
Bateman, that if a steamer of which he was pilot, were burned, he 
would save the passengers or die at the wheel. He verified the asser- 
tion to the letter, and there was never an illustration of sublimer 
devotion, of loftier courage, almost divine in its exhibition of unsel- 
fishness, than that given by John R. Trice. There are many soldiers 
that rest in Elmwood, and fair women, grateful for exhibitions of 
heroism that do honor to our race, are accustomed annually to bestrew 
their graves with choicest flowers of spring-time. But no truer, braver 
soldier fell in war, than was the heroic pilot of the steamer Caro- 
line. He held the bow of the burning vessel steadily toward the 
shore, and when all were surely saved, he was heard to exclaim : " The 
tiller rope is burned ! " and he was seen and heard no more. The bow of 
the steamer, on which the crew and passengers were crowded together, 
touched the only spot of land anywhere visible, and the pilot at the 
wheel went down in a tempest of flame, and was never seen afterward. 



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DR. WM. V. TAYLOR. 

For many years deemed the foremost member of his profession in 
Memphis, was born in 1790, in Yorktown, Virginia. He was gradua- 
ted by William and jNIary College, and afterward by the Pennsylvania 
University of Philadelphia, receiving the degree of M. D. He 
served through the war of 1812 as assistant surgeon of the ship Con- 
stitution, and shared in the dangers of the wonderful conflict between 
this vessel and the British ship Guerriere. He married Fanny, 
daughter of Leonard Henderson, Chief Justice of North Carolina, 
one of the greatest jurisconsults, whose learning adorns the books of 
his profession. Dr. Taylor practiced medicine most successfully in his 
native State, but was induced, in 1835, to migrate to Western Tennes- 
see. He lived for a time in LaGrange, and in 1839 resided in Holly 
Springs. In 1848 he was made a professor in the Memphis Medical 
College, and became a citizen of this city, where, through twenty 
years, he practiced his profession with great success. He died May 
7th, 1873. Aside from professional pre-eminence, no gentleman in 
social life was more esteemed than Dr. Taylor. For manly honor, 
delightful courtesy and faultless professional deportment, he was espe- 
cially distinguished. Christianity and benevolence gowned with glory 
a life of distinguished usefulness, and made his death as effective a 
lesson as his life had been full of practical goodness and philosophy. 



JOHN TRIGG 

Was ])orn and reared in Sumner county, Tennessee, and made Mem- 
phis his home about the year 1843. He was a successful speculator 
in land, and grew very rich. He died about sixteen years ago, highly 
esteemed among business men for his fidelity to his personal obliga- 
tions, even as he was distinguished for his sound practical good sense. 
He died June, 1863, about seventy years of age. 



BROOKS R. TREZEVANT 

Came to this city from Southampton county, Virginia, nearly forty 
years ago. He was Deputy County Court Clerk, and most intimately 
associated with James Rose, of whom we tell in another place. They 
occupied tlie same office, and never have two worthier men filled 
public places in Memphis. Mr. Trezevant died in 1852. 
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1 62 Ehnwood Cemetery. 



A. B. TAYLOR 

"Was born near Nashville, in 1796, and when only fourteen years of 
age entered the army under General Jackson. He fought in several 
battles, participating in that of the 8th of January, 1815, at New 
Orleans. He was afterward a keel-boat captain, his Noachian craft 
plying for many years between Nashville and New Orleans. In 1833 
he became a citizen of Raleigh, the old capital of this county, and 
was a successful farmer and merchant till he became, in 1848, a citizen 
of Memphis. He served three successive terms as the chief magistrate 
of this city, and retired from office honored for his unbending integrity 
and respected for his excellent, practical good sense. He died on his 
farm in Crittenden county, Arkansas, in 1866, aged seventy years. 



DR. JAMES MONROE WALKER. 

This gentleman, hardly more distinguished for suave, courtly man- 
ners, than for professional skill and attainments, was born in 1804, in 
Buckingham county, Va. He was graduated with high honors by 
Hampden Sidney /College, and subsequently by the Lexington Trqp- 
sylvania school of medicine. In 1827 he became a citizen of Nash- 
ville, and was a partner of the once famous Dr. Hogg. Dr. Walker 
married an accomplished woman, the daughter of Col. John C. 
McLemore, whose name occurs on every page of the early annals of 
Memphis. Dr. Walker removed to LaGrange, in this State, in 1835, 
and was the partner there of the late Dr. AVm. F. Taylor, Sr. He 
made Memphis his home in 1839, and was ever regarded, up to the 
date of his death in 1863, one of the most learned and skillful physi- 
cians of the city. 



JESSE T. WALDRAN, 

A magistrate of Shelby county, Tennessee, through twelve years, wa& 
born in North Carolina in 1791. During nine years in early life he 
was a seaman. He became a citizen of Tennessee in 1818, having 
his home near Nashville. He became a citizen of Shelby county in 
1825, and of Memphis in 1841, where he died March 12th, 1869, in 
the seventy-eighth year of his age. Through all his long life he bore 
a reputation for spotless integrity, and therefore this tribute to his 
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COL. JOSEPH B. WHITE, 

Who died in Memphis, at the residence of his daugliter, Mrs. E. 
AVooldridge, May, 1873, in his ninety-third year, reached a greater 
age than any one thus far interred in Ehnwood. He was born in 
Hanover county, Virginia, in 1781 ; was the son of Gen. Thomas 
White, of revolutionary fame, and the friend and associate of John 
Randolph and Patrick Henry, and of the heroes and statesmen of 
Virginia of that day. This fact made him, in the later years of his 
l)rotracted life, the most interesting talker of his time. He was with 
LaFayette, and welcomed him to Virginia when he revisited this 
country in 1825. Col. White's physical energies were unimpaired 
until within a brief period anterior to his demise, and his intellect was 
ever active and unclouded. He was a strong j^^^i'tisan, and devoted 
to the ci*eed of Jackson and Jefferson, even as he bowed reverently 
before the majesty of Jefferson's fame and genius. 



SETH WHEATLEY, 

Whose home, at the eastern extremity of Adams street, was once the 
abode of intelligence and taste, and the scene, in the olden time, of 
many a brilliant entertainment, was a native of Virginia. Forty years 
ago he came to Memphis, and was one of the first lawyers that made 
this city the scene of his triumphs. He was President of the Farmers 
and Merchants Bank, and Attorne}'' for the institution. He built his 
own monument, a magnificent vault of Nashville stone, and his body 
rests in a sarcophagus of the same material. He was not brilliant, 
but of sound, practical, good sense, and by steady, patient toil, and 
rigid economy, gathered wealth. He died June, 1858, in the fiftieth 
year of his age. 



S. B. WILLIAMSON 

AVas a successful merchant, through a long series of years, on Front 
street, Memphis. A magnificent monument in Elmwood, attesting 
the high appreciation by the living of the worth of the dead, lifts its 
tasteful form above the grave of Mr. Williamson, and on its sides is 
carved the glory of his life and death. 



164 Elmivood Ct77tetery. 



EDWIN WHITFIELD, 

The son of F. E. AVliitfield, Avas born in Bossier Parish, Louisiana, in 
1841. His father came to Memphis in 1847, and young Whitfield 
was graduated hy Union University, in 1859. He became a bank 
clerk in Memphis, and when the late war began, was a subordinate 
officer in Stutham's brigade until at Vicksburg he was attached to the 
staff of Gen. W. C. Preston, with whom he served till both fell 
wounded at the battle of Murfreesboro, young Whitfield terribly, in the 
head, by the same volley that slew the gallant Captain Orville Ewing, 
of the same staff. Whitfield was taken prisoner, but left to die, as his 
captain thought. He was tenderly cared for by citizens of JNIurfrees- 
boro, recovered, went a prisoner to camp Chase, was exchanged, and 
returned to duty with Gen. Preston. This gentleman was sent a 
diplomat to Mexico, and young Whitfield still affected by his wound, 
became an ordnance officer. At the cessation of hostilities he became 
a member of the firm of Moore, Whitfield & Co., and was a success- 
ful merchant. He was eminently popular. On the 8th of January, 
1869, he was killed by a madman or assassin, whom he probably did 
not know. 



J. J. WORSHAM 

W^as a Virginian. He came to Memphis perhaps thirty years ago, 
and was the proprietor of the Worsham House, and for a long time 
its popular landlord. He was addicted to the chase, and spent weeks 
and months in the wilds of Arkansas. Among Masons he was deemed 
an unsurpassed master of the mysteries of the Order, all of whose 
honors he wore and degrees he had taken. He and Albert Pike, as 
Masons, were ever inseparable associates. Mr. Worsham made count- 
less friends, and the writer of this, through an acquaintance of more 
than twenty years, never heard one unkind word spoken or harsh 
criticism uttered affecting the conduct or character of J. J. Worsham. 
He died July, 1871, in the fifty-ninth year of his age. • 



JOHN WENDLANDT, 

Born at Pamparo, Mecklenberg-Schwerin, Germany. He succeeded 
in making money rapidly in Memphis, where he resided twenty-three 
years, dying of yellow fever October, 1873. 



Biogi^aphical Sketches. 165 



CAPT. ELISHA ELDRIDGE WRIGHT, 

Born in Middle Tennessee, was the oldest son of" Judge Archibald 
Wright, of IVIeniphis. He was graduated with the highest honors by 
the University of North Carolina, at Chapel Hill, and came to Mem- 
phis to read law in his father's office. He was prosecuting this task 
when war was inaugurated between the States. Not more than twenty 
years of age, he was rapidly promoted as an artilleryman. He com- 
manded a light battery at the battle of Murfreesboro, and in the 
midst of dangers, such as men rarely survive, he won special distinc- 
tion for coolness and a heroism pronounced by Gen. Breckenridge 
"sublime." He fell at last, in the midst of death and carnage, on 
this bloodiest spot, save one, that was made rich by the extinction of 
heroes, through all the weary years of the ghastly inter-State Avar. 
A braver youth, or one of more remarkable intellect, or purer morals, 
never fell in the fore-front of battle than Eldridge Wright. He was 
not only endowed with brilliant fancy, but was a natural logician, and 
had he lived, would have shone among American statesmen, even as 
he died, second in honor fairly won, to no hero of American song and 
story. 



LEWIS P. WILLIAMSON, 

One of the first white inhabitants of Fayette county, Tennessee, went 
thither from Northampton county, North Carolina, in 1827. He 
became a rich cotton planter, and his home was famed for its tasteful 
hospitality. He occupied a seat in the North Carolina, and afterward 
in the Tennessee Legislature, and in the latter body was the author of 
the bill incorporating the Memphis and LaGrange Railway, to which 
Gen. E. P. Gaines gave paternity. He was twice or thrice nomi- 
nated a candidate for Congress by district conventions, but such were 
his personal private duties, and necessities, that he never became a 
candidate. He pronounced agricultural addresses rarely surpassed in 
any element of excellence. Graduated by Yale College, he was a 
scholar, as nature and training had made him a gentleman. He died 
as he had lived, with unwavering faith in the Christian's creed, and 
one finds in Elmwood no spot which he can contemplate more 
reverently than the last resting place of Lewis P. Williamson. He 
was born April 23, 1801, and died October, 1865. 



1 66 Elmwood Cemetery. 



SAM. P., MARSH, AND J. KNOX WALKER. 

These three brothers were born and reared at Columbia, Tenn. Sam. 
P. Walker was oldest of the three, and perhaps the wisest. His 
native intellect was massive and strong, but he was devoid of ambi- 
tion. There was no intellectual task which he might not have achieved. 
He once served Shelby county in the Legislature, but never, we 
believe, held any other public office. While this was true, it was also 
true that Sam. P. Walker, through a long series of years, shaped to 
a greater extent than perhaps any single citizen the political fortunes 
of Memphis, of this county, and district. He died greatly beloved 
for his generosity of conduct and 9pinions, at Bailey Spi'ings, in 
November, 1872, aged fifty-six years. 

J. Knox Walker was thoroughly trained in the best schools of the 
country, and soon after his majority became the private secretary of 
his uncle. President James K. Polk. Mr. Walker led a life of delight- 
ful ease, indolence and gaiety at Washington. Just after President 
Polk's death he became a banker in this city. In 1861 he was chosen 
Colonel of a regiment organized in Memphis, which he led at the 
bg.ttle of Belmont. His health was soon greatly impaired, and at the 
close of his term of enlistment he withdrew from the service, and not 
very long afterward died at the residence of his sister, Mrs. Pickett, 
in this city. He was an admirable colloquist, of most fascinating 
manners, and attractive, intellectual face. In 1856-7 he represented 
the city and county in the State Senate, and was an influential mem- 
ber of that body, even as he was an effective popular speaker. He 
died in 18Go, aged forty-live. 

L. Marsh Walker was a younger brother of J. Knox and Sam. 
P. AValker. He was educated at West Point, but having wealth 
resigned his commission in the Federal army, was married, and made 
Memphis his home. When inter-State war was inaugurated he Avas 
made a Brigadier-General, and assigned to command in the Confed- 
erate army of Tennessee, with which he remained until the Kentucky 
campaign was executed by General Bragg, when General Walker was 
transferred to Arkansas. Here he served most creditably, leading 
his command in several conflicts, was rising rapidly in the estimation 
of the army, became involved in a quarrel with General M.irmaduke, 
a duel resulted, and Walker fell. At the time of his death he was 
not more than thirty years of age, and there was not in the South, 



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if the brightness of one's fortunes may he measured hy the gloom 
begotten by his death, a gentleman more highly esteemed or more 
■deserving of honor. 

James, a youthful son of Col. Sam. P. Walker, and brother of the 
INIemphis Chancellor, was wounded fatally at the battle of Belmont, 
November 7th, 18G1, and interred in Elm wood a few days later. 



JOHN WILDBERGER, 

A Switzer by birth, came to Memphis when he was quite young, 
thirty-five years ago. A clothier, he made money very rapidly. The 
Swiss cottage on Shelby street was born of the taste and childhood 
memories of John Wildberger. He retired from business and became 
a farmer in 1852, and created for himself a charming home in the 
vicinity of Horn Lake. His country residence was the scene of bound- 
less hospitality, and his guests were the most intelligent and agreeable 
men and women of Memphis. He died in 185-, in the very prime of 
his manhood. 



DR. J. JOS. WILLIAMS, 

Who died of yellow fever in the fall of 1873, Avas a leading physician 
of Memphis. Perhaps no member of the profession in this city ever 
controlled a more extensive or lucrative practice. He was a professor 
and able lecturer in the Memphis Medical College, and as admirable 
for his personal virtues as professional skill and attainments. He was 
born in Fayette county, Tennessee, and died about forty-five years of 
age. His death was deeply deplored, not only by those he served 
professionally, but by the whole people of the city and county. 



MRS. DOROTHEA S. WINSTON, 

Was the oldest child of the second marriage of the patriot orator and 
statesman, Patrick Henry, of Viiginia. Having illustrated at the 
fireside, through a long and useful life, the virtues made admirable in 
the private and public career of her father, she died in Memphis, in 
1854, in the seventy-eighth year of her age, and is entombed in the 



1 68 Elmwood Cemetery. 



Fowlsr section, lot 10. She was born in Hanover county, Virginia. 
A modest little tombstone designates her last resting place. It may 
not be improper to say that we were impelled to give this brief sketch 
of Mrs. Winston, because of her great age and distinguished lineage. 
In personal worth, she was in nowise superior to Mrs. Sarah Rembert,^ 
Mrs. Nat. Anderson, Mrs. Dr. Nat. Ragland, Mrs. Dr. Dudley Dunn, 
or Mrs. Geo. L. Holmes, and thousands like them, who repose in Elm- 
wood. Of each of them, such is the modest domesticity of women's 
lives, and so devoid of those vicissitudes of fortune that distinguish 
the history of men, we could only have written the same simple story 
in much the same words which tell of the life and death of Mrs. 
"Winston. None can complain, therefore, of omissions, when all alike 
are unnamed, and least of all, can they who prepared these pages for 
publication, be condemned for the course they have been forced, 
because of contracted space, to pursue. 



DR. E. F. WATKINS, 

A Virginian by birth, and educated at William and Mary College, 
and afterward was graduated by the Philadelphia Medical University. 
In 1835 he became a citizen of Columbus, Mississippi, practicing his 
profession most successfully till 1840, when he came to Memphis. His 
health was grievously impaired in 1855, and he sought restoration in 
pine forests along the seashore of southern Mississippi. He was relieved 
of pulmonary disease, but softening of the brain supervened, and he- 
died February, 1858, in the forty-seventh year of his age. 



E. M. YERGER 

Was born in Wilson county, Tennessee, his family having migrated 
thither, we believe, from Pennsylvania. He had several brothers, all 
lawyers, and all distinguished in the profession. Four of the six that 
we knew, won great eminence. Edwin M. Yerger, when very young, 
was a soldier, with J. H. McMahon, in the Florida war. He came to- 
the bar before his majority, and while yet a very young man, was 
deemed by many the peer of Jarnagin, Coe, Barry, and others then 
pre-eminent in Memphis. He practiced his profession with great assi- 
duity, and was its master without toil, even as he was a logician, 
without seeming mental effort or training. He spoke with wonderful 



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volubility, and when needful, with a vigor of thought and force of 
reasoning that silenced opposition. He was the impersonation of 
graceful, easy, imperturbable self-possession. He was never surprised, 
and never wanting when a felicitous retort was required at his hands. 
He had studied men as successfully as he had explored the fundamen- 
tal principles of his profession, and all in all, was perhaps the greatest 
lawyer of his time in Memphis. He made money rapidly, and spent 
it as lavishly, and therefore died poor. He gave to all who asked, and 
never asked re-payment. Generous, amiable, kindly in all his instincts 
and impulses, there was never a citizen of Memphis more beloved by 
his associates, of whom John F. Sale was chief, than Edwin M. Yerger. 
In 185 — , Mr. Yerger was the whig candidate for Congress in the 
Memphis District, against Frederick P. Stanton. The discussions at 
the hustings between these two were distinguished for their attract- 
iveness, ability and gentlemanly conduct of the two men. Yerger 
was beaten by one vote, and was content, without a contest, to remain 
at home. He devoted himself, with renewed ardor after this event, 
to the practice of his profession, in which he continued to toil till his 
elevation to the bench. He served as Chancellor with great ability, 
and died in this office, March, 1871, in the fifty-second year of his age. 



JOHN DUTTLINGER,* 

Born February 4th, 1824, in Baden, Germany, became a citizen of 
Memphis in 1850. He was a prosperous tradesman, and deemed an 
honest, intelligent, public-spirited citizen, thoroughly devoted to the 
public weal. He died September 28th, 1873. 

■■ This notice was inadvertently omitted in the proper alphabetical place. 



170 Elmwood Cemetery. 



I5ORTUARY STATISTICS OF MEMPHIS. 



The Popular Science Monthly reproduces tables of mortality prepared 
by Dr. C. P. Russell, for 1872 From these we learn that the highest 
death-rate in any American city was exhibited by Memphis, where 
the rate was 46. G per thousand inhab.tants ; Savannah, oJ. 2 ; Vicks- 
burg, 36.5; Troy, 34; Hoboken, 32.9; New York, 32.7; Newark, 
31.6 ; New Orleans, 30.6 ; Boston, 30.5. The rate for Philadelphia 
was only 26.1; Brooklyn, 28.1; St. Louis, 20.1; Chicago, 27.6; 
Baltimore, 25. 1 ; Cincinnati, 20.5; Sau Francisco, 17.2. This com- 
pares not unfavorably with the mortuary statistics of British cities, 
where the lowest rate was 21.4; that of London, Bombay and Cal- 
cutta show only 29.2 and 25, respectively. The highest known death- 
I'ate prevailed in Valparaiso, Chili, 66.9. 

This statement having been published in almost every American 
newspaper, it results that facts affecting the healthfulness of Memphis 
ai*e everywhere grossly misconceived. The corporate limits of Mem- 
phis occupy a sjjace of three square miles, and Federal census tables, 
constructed in 1870, give this territory a population of but little more 
than 40,000. At the time the census was taken, Northern politicians 
were very unwilling to augment the basis of congressional representa- 
tion in the so-called rebel States, and, as every intelligent citizen has 
long since learned, the number of people in Southern communities 
was made the least possible. Very many families and many houses 
were never visited by the census-taker, and the names of many old 
citizens of Memphis do not appear in the returns. Moreover, such is 
the peculiar character of Memphis commercial activity, based solely 
on cotton, that i:)erfect idleness obtains in summer, and great numbers 
leave Memphis in the hot months, when this census was taken. It 
resulted from these facts, that the Federal census tables of 1870 fail 
to give Memphis a proper number of inhabitants. Very certainly 
there were not less than 55,000 people in the city projjer, to which the 
census-taker was restricted. 

While the number of people in the city was thus lessened in census 
returns, it happened that there was in 1S72, when the table above 
quoted was made, no Board of Health, and no statistics of mortality 
were gathered or published by any authorized agency. The figures 
and supposed facts given by the Popular Science 3Ionth.li/ were taken 



Morhiai'y Statistics. 171 



from the books of sextons, cemeteries, and of hospitals. There were 
no other possible sources of inf )rmation. It followed, since Memphis 
cemeteries receive the dead of one-third of the county outside the 
city's confines, and great numbers of bodies from the lowlands of 
Arkansas, and many from the State of Mississippi, only twelve miles 
distant, the Mississippi river separating Memphis from Arkansas, and 
since very many, perhaps a majority of those that die between Cairo 
and New Orleans on the "inland sea" are buried on the bights on 
which Memphis stands, and since all these were supposed by the con- 
structor of tables in 1\\q Poindar Science Monthly to have died in 
Memphis, we are not amazed that Memjjhis is pronounced the " j^lague- 
spot " of the continent. 

Never did a statistician commit such an egregious blunder. In the 
absence of a Board of Health, errors were unavoidable. The census- 
taker of 1870 confined himself, in mid-summer, to the city's limits, 
and discharged his task most inefficiently ; while this hygienic statis- 
tician sought information among grave-diggers and at hospitals, whose 
reports had reference to populations numbering not less than 80,000, 
instead of 40,000. Hence the alarming percentage of deaths in 1872 
commented on by the ropular Science Monthly. 

THE FIGURES. 

From the 1st of March, 1872, to March 1, 1873, the beginning and 
end of the fiscal year of the Cemetery, there were 980 burials in 
Elmwood. This being the only Protestant Cemetery now in use in 
Memphis, fully one-half of the interments are made within its limits. 
Add 980, the supposed, but in excess of the real number of burials 
in all other local cemeteries, and it is shown that there were 1960 
burials during the year in the city's cemeteries. Besides Memphis, 
with 55,000 inhabitants, one-third of the County of Shelby outside 
the city, the adjacent counties of Mississippi, the lowlands of Arkansas 
across the river, and migratory raultitules drifting uj)on the river 
itself, send their dead, as do levee builders and railway managers, for 
interment to the bights on which Memphis stands. In 1872 there 
were 442 interments made from the City Hospital. Half of these 
were Europeans, and more than one-third negroes; but all are charged 
to Memphis in this bill of mortality which appears in the Popular 
Science Monthly. Since all these dead people, by a gross error, are 
deemed citizens of Memphis, we are not amazed that this is asserted 
to be the deadliest spot on the continent. 



1/2 Elmwood Cemetery. 



Palpably enough, populations numbering not less than 80,000, 
instead of 40,000, bring tlieir dead to Mempliis, and these unques- 
tionable facts reduce the rate of mortality, as given in the tables of 
the Popular Science Monthly, nearly one-half, or 24^ to 1000. 

Negroes are eminently gregarious, and addicted to town and city 
life. They have a negropolis of crowded cabins in the suburbs. Its 
population varies from 12,000 to 15,000, and often, weekly mortality 
reports, as now regularly published, show that half the deaths in- 
Memphis are of negroes. It is commonly estimated that not less than 
one-third of the whole number of deaths in the city are of negroes, 
constituting less than one-fourth of the city's whole population. This 
fact only shows how negroes live and die, and how it happens that the 
healthfulness of Memphis is wrongfully denied. 

The Mississippi and its branches, navigable for 12,000 miles, is a 
great highway of States and cities. Memphis is in the very midst of 
these, aud here migratory populations rest in fall months, when going 
south, and in spring when returning north. The city's death-rate is 
augmented very greatly by invalids on their way to or from Florida 
or Southern Texas, or the Hot Springs of Arkansas. Memphis is the 
chosen resting-place of strangers traversing these States. 

In l<S7o sraall-pox came, and soon, in grim, ghastly procession, 
cholera aud yellow fever, with slow, measured tread, followed closely 
in its foul footsteps. They came as infections or contagions, and were 
not indigenous to the spot. The day and hour of the advent of each 
plague is known, and the steamer that inducted each. Cholera came 
from New Orleans and yellow fever from Shreveport, and it is only 
unfortunate for Memphis that these unprecedented calamities, which 
may never recur, give a share of credibility to the extraordinary table 
published by the Popular Science Monthly. 

But there is a mighty city burying its dead in Memphis cemeteries,, 
that moves forever on the great rivers of this valley. Census-takers 
have never invaded its marts, and sextons and undertakers and hospitals 
gathered for it no statistics of mortality to stagger the credulity of 
mankind. On this mighty drifting emporium there are no coffins 
constructed ; of its mortality, statisticians furnish no records. From 
countless steamers between St. Louis and New Orleans, the dead are 
gathered and deposited in the charming cemeteries of this uplifted 
city. Mortuary tables before given would make the world believe 
that all these people- lived and died here, and that grim death, robed 



Mortuary Statistics. i 'ji 



in ghastly malaria, stalked in (li-uiikeu revelry along the highways of 
Memphis forever. As Indians and white men are buried in the low- 
lands on the summits of mounds constructed by an unknown race, so 
the mighty wandering multitudes of the Mississippi river find on the 
summit of the Chickasaw Bluffs — thehightsou which Memphis stands 
— and in rose-embowered cemeteries, a final resting-place. 

There is surely no reason iu climatic or local facts why the death- 
rate of Memphis should exceed 20.1 per thousand, that of St. Louis ; 
and if tables were properly and truthfully prepared, the two cities 
-would be found to share very nearly the same hygienic fortunes. 

If any still question the healthfulness of Memphis, save wdien some 
•dismal plague has wrapped about the woe-stricken city a funeral pall, 
let them attend a convocation of the Old Folks Association. A long 
■catalogue of members, each twenty years a citizen of Memphis, and 
some for half a century, tells of longevity as commonplace. The 
patriarch of the Old Folks, Col. Charles D. McLean, nearly ninety 
years of age, still moves actively about the city's sti'eets, and with 
smiling fece greets each questioner as to his own and the city's health 
Avith the habitual response, " the best in the world." At each 
annual festival of these venerable people, hundreds join in the dance, 
and joyous, harmless revelry, and gray locks that veil time-worn tem- 
ples and corrugated brows are toyed with by the softest, most delight- 
ful winds that sweep over this broad land. Why Memphis, on a lofty 
jilateau, from eight to twenty miles wide, and extending eastwardly 
half a hundred miles, between two parallel streams running from east 
to west, and draining perfectly the rich and elevated plain — why 
Memphis should be pronounced unhealthful, is not apparent in any 
fact written on the face of the country, or in climatic laws, or in 
properly compiled mortuary statistics. 



ynZ 'V/OF^LD'P *jVIoF(TALITY JaBLE. 



Assuming the population of the entire world to be 1,200,000,000, 
which is 177,500,000 less than that given by the latest statistics, it is 
■estimated that of this number 30,000,000 die every year ; 2,625,000 
die every month ; 82,192 die every day ; 3425 die every hour ; 60 
«very minute ; 1 dies every second. 



The Confederate Dead in Elmwood. 



Such are the charms of Elmwood that multitudes are gathered there 
each Sunday, and tender sympathy leads many wandering footsteps to 
the spot where Confederate soldiers rest. Here they lie in a broad 
area, given by the proprietors of the Cemetery, with no marble head- 
stones such as our Government uses in perpetuating the names of its 
defenders. These soldiers fell in all the battles of the South, or their 
lives went away from bodies racked with pain in hospitals, in which 
good women of Memphis once ministered tenderly and tirelessly. 
Mothers, wives, and daughters, until this generation lives no longer, 
will annually visit Elmwood, that they may bedew Avith tears, and 
deck with roses, the hallowed spot where rest the gallant dead. Men 
of learning and eloquence sleep in Elmwood, and they whose ambition 
States were pleased to gratify. ^Monumental stone points to the grass- 
covered graves in which their ashes rejiose, and wonder and reverence, 
with silent footsteps and bated breath, are wont to con over epitaphs 
that recite the virtues of these illustrious of our race, on Avhom 
fortune smiled and wealth lavished favors. They achieved the aims 
of selfish and ennobling ambition ; but these poor soldiers, who gave 
their lives, as they believed, for their country's emancipation, are 
truer representatives of greatness and of unselfish patriotism. It is 
eminently proper that these brave men should rest among the most 
honored children of Tennessee, and of the South. The depth of 
sorrow or honors lavished on the heroes of the recent Revolution cannot 
yet be defined with any reference to the wisdom or justice of the 
cause they originally espoused. 

In this spot, whereon nature has lavished wealth, grace and beauty, 
consecrated by the dust of illustrious churchmen, jurists, statesmen. 



The Confederate Dead. 175 



and patriots ; here, in the bosom of a State in which these heroes lost 
their lives, to honor and invest with supreme sovereign rights ; here, 
these children of the South should repose, and here their peerless 
virtues be commemorated. The time Avill come, when passions of the 
hour have subsided, when every American will bend reverentially 
before the majesty of sublime heroism illustrated in the lives and 
deaths of these soldiers. 

Gen. W. B. Bate, who pronounced in Elmwood perhaps the most 
eloquent oration ever uttered in honor of the Confederate dead, said 
that " Wisely, or unwisely, there were those whose sublimest aspira- 
tion was that they might not survive the independence of the South. 
This prayer was heard ; at least the pang of defeat was spared. They 
fell before the banner they often followed to victory w-as furled ; 
before the cause they espoused was crushed; before that freedom 
sought was lost ; and whatever the woi'ld's final decree as to their 
wisdom or worth, the South must rear monuments to their fame. 
Theirs was courage without stain ; toil and danger incurred without 
blemish ; integrity that knew no compromise ; and patriotism that 
withheld no sacrifice." 

AVE ARE FELLOW-COUNTRYMEN. 

Standing among these soldiers' graves to-day, we listen to the ritual 
of sorrow in which all great revolutions chaunt to human hearts their 
deepest meanings. We learn, at last, that Avhether Northerners or 
Southerners, Ave are felloAV-countrymen, in birth, in blood, in common 
traditions ; that Ave share the same heroic aims, the same heroic inspi- 
rations. We have been made fellow-countrymen, in a larger measure 
of affection, by sufferings most heroically endured. A holier sanctity 
breathed from heaven has been imparted to our civil and social 
relations, and the strong fibres that, in former years, bound us to fathers, 
brothers, sons, now bind us to the soil in Avhich their martyred dust 
reposes. As never before. Northerners and Southerners, Avhen contem- 
plating all these soldiers' graves, become fellow-countrymen, jealous 
alike of the fame of each soldier engaged in the Avar between _the 



J 76 Elmwood Cemetery. 



States. No '^< - uttered in derogation of tlie fame of either, 

without deti honors properly awarded both. And thus it 

happens that fro t 4Aii^ .. antic conflict, which dug these modest graves, 
there spring j. rofound' r ivictions of American brotherhood. Well 
may the living of th;.- . 1 future years, annually gather about this 
consecrated spo; iind asser* their reverence for the virtues and admi- 
ration, for the h( I msie* ui soldiers who rest in Elmwood, The hallowing 
breath of God is in the wail of mourning which annually rises in 
spring-tim'e, over thousands of graves, and from homes sadder than 
graves, everywhere in the South. It recites in the litany of breaking 
hearts, the fearful incidents of four years of carnage and anguish, and 
this tribute to the fallen heroes of revolution, must be renewed forever. 
Through all coming time we would bestrew these graves of soldiers, 
with Cyprus and laurel, and keep their names and virtues forever 
hallowed in our memories. 

THE MONUIVIENT. 

A stone base for a lofty pillar, has already been prepared, to desig- 
nate the burial place of Confederate soldiers. The shaft, after a time, 
will be fitted to its place, and annually, Avhen spring-time comes, 
wreathed with roses and evergreens. 



ADDENDUM. 



The following ordinance was i)assed by the City Councils of Mem- 
phis, May 4th, 1869 : 

Be it ordained, etc., That the ordinance passed August 7th, 1860, 
recorded in book 10, page No. 78, on the subject of interments within 
the city limits, be amended as follows: That no graveyard or cemetery 
for the burial of the dead shall be allowed witliin the corporate limits 
of the city of Memphis, except those already established and in exist- 
ence, Jno. 'W. Leftwicii, Mayor. 

Attest : L. R. Richards, CJity Register. 



NAMES OF CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS, 

As far as ascertained^ buried in Eln^wood, who were Citizei^s of 
HJemphis or viciijity. 



There are, in addition to these, nearly a thousand Confederate sol- 
diers buried in the Cemetery, who generally died in hospitals, and 
were citizens of Arkansas and other States. 



Anderson, Gen. J. Patton 
Armstrong, John W. 
Alford, J. L. 
Adams, W. S. 
Ammen, D. C. 
Apperson, John W. 
Allin, Maj. Phil T. 
Andrews, W. N. 

Bayliss, William H. 
Bryant, William C. 
Beecher, Maj. E. A. 
Bass, S. H. 
Burnett, George W. 
Black, H. W. 
Beaumont, G, T. 
Ball, John H. 

Carroll, Gen. Wm. H. 
Cochran, Francis T. 
Collins, Col. Nathaniel D. 
Certon, William 
Culpepper, Capt. J. H. 
Cox, Robert B. 
Cole, John B. 
Clark, James R. 
Cage, John T. 
12 



Dupuy, S. P. 
Doyle, Decatur J. 
Driver, Maj. Wm. T. 

Eanes, John 
Elliott, Lee H. 
Eubank, R. P. 

Freeman, Surgeon Robert J. 
Fowlkes, Capt. S. 
Ferguson, Lieut. W. B. 
Forrest, Maj. Jeffrey 
Flornoy, Hall 
Flornoy, Willie 
Falls, George 

Gunn, C. H. 
Grice, James H. 
Green, Capt. H. Dixon 

Hall, W. A. 
Hamilton, Capt. J. 
Hunt, Col. Wm. R. 
Hart, Col. Robert 
Hamlin, Edward L. 
Harris, Ed. 

Hartsfield, William G. 
Henry, Maj. John F. 



178 



Elnvwood Cemetery. 



Harris, John W. 

Hyatt, Charles 
Horue, E. W. 
Hutchinson, Capt. B, B. 

Johnson, J. R. M. 

King, Morris 
Kehoe, Capt. Wm. 
Kelly, John H. 

Leath, Maj. Peter M. 
Lundy, Capt. E. C. 

McDonald, Maj. Charles 
Mellon, Alf. M. 
Moon, Robert A. 
Morrison, Jacob 
May, Capt. Charles 
Monsarratt, Maj. George H. 
Miller, William 
McCullough, Hugh 

Nash, Abner 

Owen, Augustus 

Piper, William A. 
Pitman, Warren 
Pattison, Capt. Thomas F. 
Palmer, Edward G. 
Peace, Col. Wm. 
Pattison, Oliver G. 
Patrick, Capt. Wm. 
Pattison, Robert T. 
Porter, Capt. Edward 
Pinson, Col. R. A. 
Patterson, Wm. S. 
Pope, Lieut. Wm. S. 



B. 



Richardson, Gen. R. V. 
Ross, Col. W. B. 
Rogers, Vol. P. 
Rhodes, M. 
Rowe, E. A. 

Smith, Gen. Preston 
Seabrook, John T. 
Shields, Lieut. W. S. 
Stewart, Darwin 
Steiner, Lieut. J. P. 
Sledge, Washington 
Spicer, James W. 
Stockton, George M. 

Titus, James T. 
Titus, John F. 
Trezevant, Maj. Ed. 
Townsend, George 
Talbot, John R. 
Taylor, Gen. James H. 
Taylor, A. H. 
Taylor, William V. 
Timberlake, William H. 
Trezevant, Lieut. Louis Cruger 

TJhls, Capt. John 
AValker, Gen. Marsh 
Walker, Col. J. Knox 
Wright, E. p:idridge 
Whitfield, Lieut. Edwin 
Ward, C. C. 
Wheaton, W. N. 
Williams, Dr. J. 
Wills, Wm. A. 
Walker, James 
Woodard, Henry P. 
White, Andrew J. 
Wade, Henry 



R. 



Joseph 



Federal Soldiers buried in Elmwood. 

The following named are the United States soldiers buried in Elm- 
wood — the list as full as we could make it : 



Atlee, Lieut. S. J. 
Fox, J. D. 
Hudson, Capt. H. E. 
Hunter, Judge Wm. 



Hyde, Capt. Mason 
McDonald, Col. Charles 
Sterling, Surgeon A. 
Waldran, Judge George W. 



List of Proprietors of Elmwood Cemetery. 



Note. — The letters in the sectiok column will be read thus: C. H., Chapel 
Hill ; T., Turley ; S. G., South Grove ; F., Fowler ; C. H. C, Chapel Hill 
Circle ; L. C, Lenow Circle. 



NAMES OF PROPRIETORS. NO. LOT. 

Aakin, Mrs. J, E 745 

Abercrombie, Dr. C, S, and Cogswell 67, 68 

Abies, Joseph 61 

Adams, Colin ,340 

Afflick, Wm. H 294 

Aiuslie, John 142 

Aikin, M 571 

Allen, Thos. H 86 

Allen, AV. V 554, 555 

Allen, M. A , and C. C. Bayliss 175 

Allen, J. D '. 270 

Allen, W. L 303 

Allen, J. H 806 

Allen, Kobert 573 

Allen, Charles 162 

Alley, Joseph W 548 

Alexander, Hughes and Ridler 169 

Alexander, J. M 271 

Alexander, James C 585 

Allin, Mrs. Halle 65 

Aldrich, D 217 

Amonett, James J 139 

Ammon, Eob't S. and M. W. Alexander... 529 

Amis, Catherine 66 

Anderson, W. C 207 



XO. FT. 


8EC. 


124 


C.H. 


576 


T. 


262 


S.G. 


72 


C.H. 


148 


T. 


161 


T. 


148 


C.H. 


1182 


C.H. 


283 


C.H. 


378 


C.H. 


136 


T. 


131 


T. 


147 


T. 


192 


F. 


260 


F. 


138 


C.H. 


306 


C.H. 


168 


C.H. 


420 


T. 


450 


C.H.C. 


263 


T. 


163 


T. 


204 


F. 


357 


L.C. 


288 


C.H. 



i8o 



Elmwood Cemetery. 



KAMES OF PROPRIETORS. NO. LOT. 

Anderson, J. A., and M. E. Fagg 12, 15 

Anderson, James W G24 

Anderson, James H 209 

Anderson, J. Patton, and Robert Scott... 516 

Anderson, Theodore 656 

Antwine, Wm 18 

Andrews, Wm. H 506 

Angus, Edward E 555 

Apperson, E. M 7 

App, M 611 

Arlt, F. W 318 

Armstrong, M. A 480^ 

Armstrong, J. Welby 598 

Armstrong, Robert E 207 

Armour, J. D 6 

Armour, James 422 

Arnold, George 276 

Arnold, George 372 

Ashe, S. M 35 

Ashbrook, Clarence P 60^ 

Atkinson, Q. C 299^ 

Auer, J. C, F. C. Heckle 637 

Avery, Wm. T 39 

Avery, James W 586 

Aydlett, T. P., and C. C. Cleaves 49 

Ayres, Treadwell S 15 

Ayres, Samuel W 376 

Armstrong, Barney L 64^ 

Allen, Charles S 510^ 

Anderson, Butler P 577 

Anderson, J. Patton, and Scott, Mrs. R... 469 

Ashcraft, John 76 

Athy, Philip R 190 

Anderson, Venn & Co 173 

Atlee, Mrs. Elvira V 654 

Babb, Benjamin 48, 72 

Backus, Mrs. Minnie 62 

Bacon, Thomas 618 

Bailey, Sylvester 57 



NO. FT. 


SEC. 


667 


S.G. 


780 


C.H. 


144 


S.G. 


270 


C.H. 


96 


T. 


150 


T. 


262 


C.H. 


127 


F. 


840 


T. 


360 


C.H. 


130 


C.H. 


1764 


C.H. 


117 


C.H. 


263 


T. 


538 


F. 


262 


C.H. 


136 


T. 


198 


C.H. 


190 


S.G. 


250 


F. 


1596 


C.H. 


646 


C.H. 


1184 


C.H. 


266 


C.H. 


1008 


C.H. 


1200 


C.H. 


600 


C.H. 


483 


C.H.C, 


225 


F. 


380 


C.H. 


457 


F. 


270 


S.G. 


208 


S.G. 


444 


F. 


144 


T. 


500 


S.G. 


220 


C.H. 


495 


T. 


567 


T. 



List of Proprietors. 181 



NAMES OF PROPRIETORS. XO. LOT. 

Bailey, Wm 256 

Baird, Abner 282 

Boke, J, and F. Mahler 499 

Ball, B. F 121 

Banks, Mrs. Mary 100 

Banks, James 586 

Banks, Jeremiah 587 

Bankhead, Smith? 67 

Banksraith, Frank 556 

Barnes, B. B., and Wm. Proudfit 596 

Barnett, J. J 204 

Barnett and Walker 216 

Barr, K 106 

Bardsley, Wm. C 70 

Bason, Richard 209 

Baxter, Fred 25 

Baxter, G. W., and D. W. Monroe 98 n ^- 

Baum, Elenora 191 

Bataille, Elisy 764 

Bayliss, C. C. , and M. A. Allen 175 

Bayliss, W. Bronson 327, 334 

Beamish, Francis 230 

Beasley, Wm. H, and Wm. A. Radford... 486 

Beasley, J. E., and D. R. Cook 112, 113 

Beaumont, S. B 55 

Becktel, Eliza Jane 203 

Beard, T. L., and E. H. Word 4 

Bechtold, Jacob 319 

Bedford, B. W., Sr 360 

Bedford, J. and B. W., Jr 361 

Beecher, Ed. A 326,335 

Benham, Hiram 398 

Benson, E. A 196 

Benjes, Wm 141 

Benham, J. H 545 

Bennett, DeGray , Wm. and Lou 530 

Bennett, Lucinda • 113 

Berkle, Jacob 9 n pt 

Bernard, H 343 

Bernard, H 317 



NO. FT. 


8EC. 


247 


C.H. 


131 


T. 


402 


C.H. 


300 


T. 


918 


T. 


480 


T. 


400 


T. 


183 


C.H. 


149 


F. 


152 


C.H. 


120 


T. 


1160 


C.H. 


225 


C.H. 


232 


F. 


275 


C.H. 


1175 


C.H. 


1311 


F. 


316 


F. 


128 


C.H. 


378 


C.H. 


364 


T. 


270 


T. 


140 


F. 


1129 


L.C. 


378 


F. 


324 


F. 


472 


S.G. 


154 


C.H. 


550 


C.H. 


702 


C.H. 


381 


T. 


140 


C.H. 


205 


C.H. 


247 


T. 


124 


C.H. 


125 


T. 


96 


Col'd 


300 


C.H. 


80 


T. 


90 


T. 



I«2 



Elmwood Cejnetery, 



NAMES OP PROPRIETORS. NO. LOT. 

Benton, Sarah 546 

Bender, Wm 212 

Berry, Leander 512 

Berton, Auguste 575 

Bethell, P. C 149 

Bethell, P. C 150 

Berry, R. B 93 

Bingham, AVm. H 382 

Bigelow, Alice 59i- 

Bill, Nelson A., and K Shelby 270 

Bill, Charles C 271 

Bingham, F. G 168 

Blessing, J. W 189^ 

Blair, D. B 275 

Blanz, Gustavus 501 

Bledsoe, Isaac 509 

Blythe, AV. A., Estate of 636 

Black, Robert, Heirs of. 465 

Booth, Wm. A 23 

Bogart, Daniel 98 

Botts, Aaron 1 45 

Bowles, Wm 221 

Borner, Herman 342 

Borner, Charles 343 

Bourne, James T 351 

Bowen, F. F 487 

Bowles, Wm 130 

Boyd, Alston M 266 

Bond, L. D 19 

Boisseau, D. E 607 

Boiling, R. P 73 

Boyd, Mrs. Susan 176 

Bowling, B 421 

Booker, Ferdinand and Albert 514, 515 

Bowen, Alex 199 

Boswell, John 224 

Boomer, Martha A 133 

Booth, Wm 238, 256 

Bowan, Andrew G 68 

Boswell, Thomas H 363 



»ro. FT. 


SEC. 


132 


T. 


438 


F. 


138 


T. 


224 


F. 


444 


F. 


480 


F. 


323 


C.H. 


99 


C.H. 


204 


C.H. 


365 


F. 


435 


F. 


287 


C.H 


120 


C.H 


240 


T. 


108 


T. 


99 


T. 


242 


C.H 


301 


T. 


1188 


C.H 


255 


C.H 


262 


C.H 


200 


C.H 


132 


C.H 


111 


C.H 


306 


C.H 


262 


C.H 


222 


T. 


374 


C.H 


180 


F. 


171 


C.H 


264 


T. 


376 


F. 


268 


C.H 


524 


C.H 


312 


F. 


262 


T. 


294 


T. 


286 


F. 


262 


S.G. 


120 


T. 



List of Proprietors. 183 



NAMES OF PROPRIETORS. NO. LOT. 

Bond, M. E., and F. M. Cogswell 66, \ of 67 

Boyle, W. F, W. W. McClelland, and 

J. F. Sellers , 184 

Bolton, Wade H. , Estate of 6U 

Bowen, John H 669, 670 

Bowles, Elvira W 63, 63i 

Booth, John 514 

Bowman, Jackson 104 

Bock, Christian 456 

Brinkley, Robert C 37 

Brooke, George 79 

Bryan, Dr. W. C 96 

Brown, R. B 105 

Brown, Joseph F 122 

Brown, John and W. C, and T. Leonard.. 477 

Brooks, M. J 11 

Brown, W. P 209 

Bryant, C. D 236 

Brown, B. H 9 

Brenish, Susan 13 

Brackett, John J. , Heirs of. 383 

Brust, Jacob 317 

Bryan, S. L 401 

Brown, John J 235 

Bruce, W. S., Joseph, N. S., and L. C. 

Mount 145 

Brooks, Samuel 22 

Bradford, Simon 433 

Brown, W. N., and S. H. Todd 88 

Bradley, Gen. T. H 305 

Bradford, Mrs. W. C 262 

Bryson, Pinkney H 752 

Bryson, Pinkney H 753 

Brown, Jesse F 36 

Bridges, Wm. H 58^ 

Braun, Jacob 259 

Browne, John W. S 503 

Brown, EliasH., and John Rapp 481 

Brooks, John H 496 

Brooks, Samuel H..,' 589 



NO. FT. 


SEC. 


443 


T. 


736 


F. 


512 


C.H.C, 


503 


C.H. 


1154 


C.H.C. 


80 


T. 


108 


Col'd. 


180 


T. 


1178 


C.H. 


300 


C.H. 


234 


C.H. 


207 


C.H. 


216 


C.H. 


512 


C.H. 


196 


F. 


266 


T. 


191 


C.H. 


225 


T. 


208 


T. 


112 


C.H. 


196 


C.H. 


110 


C.H. 


231 


C.H. 


1080 


F. 


234 


C.H. 


262 


C.H. 


756 


T. 


242 


C.H. 


1274 


T. 


150 


C.H. 


138 


C.H. 


174 


S.G. 


31U 


C.H.C, 


150 


F. 


96 


F. 


323 


T. 


123 


T. 


140 


T. 



184 Elmwood Cemetery. 



NAMES OF PROPRIETORS. NO. LOT. 

Brown, T, W 231 

Bevens, Dr. Elam F 890 

Bunce, E. P 140 

Bulkley, H. D., and M. L. Bybee 551 

Buehl, Henry 4 

Buchanan, J. K., and C. K. Murrah ., 8 

Buntyn, Geraldus 50 

Buckingham, Henry G 67 

Burr, A. A 54 

Burk, C. C 546 

Burch, B. W 444 

Burton, Richard A 462 

Burton, Cecilia 18 

Busby, Jesse J 14 

Busby, Wm. V., and K. Pollock, and S. 

Whitten 748 

Burkle, Carolina 371 

Busch, Jacob 502 

Burns, Lucinda, L. E., and David E 275 

Burlison, Margaret Jennette 153 

Butt, James L. D 482 

Bullock, Sarah S 330 

Brown, Benjamin C 47 

Braxton, Rachel 109 

Boone, George P 176 

Bateman, Gorham A 579 

Bettis, Fannie M 992 

Bettis, Walter P 991 

Barton, James F., Estate of 30 

Bengert, John, and Christine Rembling... 698 

Beasley, Thomas J 9 

Carnes, James A 13 

Carnes, James A 16 

Caruthers, J. P 143 

Carroll, Wm. H 215 

Carr,Wm 419 

Cannon, J. Q,., and Samuel 505 

Cayce, M. C 104 

Caldwell, E. W 37 



N^O. FT. 


SEC. 


410 


F. 


96 


T. - 


262 


C.H. 


352 


C.H, 


274 


F. 


200 


F. 


1200 


T. 


775 


C.H. a 


262 


S.G. 


135 


C.H. 


221 


C.H. 


300 


C.H. 


262 


Col'd. 


390 


C.H.C. 


170 


C.H. 


391 


T. 


131 


T. 


264 


F. 


288 


S.G, 


93 


F. 


206 


T. 


264 


S.G. 


114 


Col'd. 


96 


S.G. 


567 


T. 


144 


T. 


184 


T. 


676 


C.H.C. 


154 


C.H. 


425 


L.C. 


1273 


C.H, 


288 


C.H, 


418 


C.H. 


325 


C.H. 


262 


C.H. 


262 


C.H, 


264 


F. 


300 


S.G, 



List of Proprietors. 



185 



NAMES OF PROPRIETORS. NO. LOT. 

Caldwell, D., and G. F. Huls 147 

Caldwell, Mrs. M. W 194 

Camp, S.J 188 

Cameron, James A 211 

Campbell, R. N 491 

Cavaline, Mrs. Eliza 215, 228 

Carlisle, Mrs. L. H 229 

Caldwell, E. W.,Sr 216 

Cairnes, James G 313 

Games, John and James 119 

Campbell, Mary L 34 

Casey, John W 493 

Carnes, John and James 120 

Church, Charles B 11 

Charabliss, Thos 52 

Chrisp, W. B 211 

Chiles, H. B 1451 

Cheek, John 1 45 

Cheek, E 53 

Cherry, C. W., Heirs of 291, 292 

Christian, Dr 142 

Childres, T. J 266 

Chandler, W. L 135 

Chase, Wm 572 

Chambers, John W 382 

Church, Robert 7 

Chambless, Tucker 50 

Church, Charles B 78 

Chalmers, Vernon 110 

Cleaves, Calvin C. , and T. P. Aydlett 49 

Clarke, R. G 53 

Clarke, E. E 50 

Cliflford, H. B 192 

Clements, W. J 443 

Claridge, W. V 325 

Claridge, John M 380 

Clayton, John S 174 

Clark, Wm. H 558 

Clark, Carlos 488 

Clay, Clement C 15 



NO. FT. 


SEC. 


456 


F. 


230 


C.H, 


313 


T. 


263 


T. 


262 


C.H. 


511 


T. 


176 


F. 


284 


F. 


176 


T. 


114 


Col'd, 


376 


L.C. 


156 


T. 


238 


Col'd. 


1088 


C.H. 


712 


C.H. 


237 


C.H. 


210 


C.H, 


130 


T. 


262 


S.G. 


665 


C.H. 


262 


F. 


144 


T. 


260 


F. 


714 


T. 


105 


T. 


256 


Col'd. 


153 


Col'd. 


100 


Col'd. 


114 


Col'd. 


1008 


C.H. 


1152 


C.H. 


807 


C.H.C. 


272 


T. 


212 


C.H. 


118 


T. 


88 


T. 


654 


F. 


125 


T. 


141 


T. 


410 


C.H.C. 



1 86 Elmwood Cemetery. 



NAMES OF PROPRIETORS. NO. LOT. 

Clark, Wm, Estate of. 49 

Cloth, Herman 223 

Cloth, Herman 222^ 

Collins, Dr. Charles 962 

Cox, Wm 66 

Cooper, George P 219 

Copeland, Jasper 320 

Colman, James 518 

Cogswell, Mrs. A. M 387 

Cockrell, S. W 97 

Cordes, Charles and Adolphus 573 

Copeland, F. M 52 

Coleman, Walter 168 

Coleman, Wm. W 115 

Costen, S. T 173 

Cooper, H. F 206 

Corns, Mrs. J. W 268 

Cobb, B. E 305 

Cogswell, F. M., and M. C. Bond 66, \ of 67 

Cockrell, D " 569 

Coffee, Sallie R., M. E. and E. W. Tucker, .s \ of 23 

Cooper, George 40 

Cocke, Thos. H 39, 69 

Cole, Edmund A 56 

Colby, John D 448 

Coe, L.H., Estate of. 51 

Cockrell, D 91 

Cocks, Annie C 291 

Coe, L. H., and C. J. Phillips 46 

Cockrell, Maggie... 569J 

Cowan, Wm 494 

Cook, Charles S 407 

Coleman, Oscar F 463 

Conrad, James F 197 

Corwin, Elizabeth 210 

Cochran, John W 18 

Cochran, Marcus E 31 

Cook, Mary 727 

Corwine, John M..... 387 

Cochran, Francis T., Estate of 46 



NO. FT. 


SEC. 


250 


S.G. 


150 


T. 


240 


T. 


600 


T. 


182 


C.H. 


1035 


C.H. 


112 


C.H. 


283 


C.H. 


117 


C.H. 


264 


F. 


294 


C.H. 


202 


T. 


161 


T. 


180 


T. 


338 


C.H. 


195 


T. 


140 


T. 


168 


T. 


443 


T. 


980 


T. 


600 


F. 


121 


F. 


1185 


C.H.C. 


306 


C. H.C. 


262 


C.H. 


237 


Col'd. 


135 


Col'd. 


288 


T. 


600 


C. H.C. 


336 


T. 


126 


T. 


122 


C.H. 


408 


C.H. 


96 


S.G. 


144 


S.G. 


325 


C.H.C. 


790 


C.H.C. 


138 


C.H. 


180 


T. 


575 


S.G. 



List of Proprietors. 187 



NAMES OF PKOPRIETORS. NO. LOT. 

Coleman, Benjamin 581 

Cook, D. R., and J. E. Beasley 112, 113 

Craft, J. H 48 

Creighton, K M 112 

Croflbrd, J. T 146, 149 

Crockett, David 490 

Crane, Wm 504 

Crenshaw, J. W 10 

Crenshaw, Thomas C 13 

Creighton, Henry 52 

Crosson, Marion 374 

Cracraft, Dr. D. J. C 324 

Crosby, George 206 

Crockett, Mary B 232 

Crook, G. W. L., and Goodyear 8 

Crockett, George D 44 

Crego, Dr. A. T 186 

Crawford, E. A 144 

Crisman,Wm. B 188^ 

Craft, Henry 31, 32^ 

Cubbins, Thomas 99 

Curtis, S. B 156 

Currin, D. M 301, 302 

Cummings, J, Y 171 

Currie, Mary P 502 

Cubbins, John 36 

Collins, Dr. Charles 337 

Clayton, Mrs. J. S., and Duke, Mrs. G.W. 66^ 

Craig, Richard G 388 

Clarke, Thomas H 683 

Counell, Hiram D., Estate of 593 

Crowell, William J 238 

Crone, Matilda 378 

Church Home 417 

Coffey, Thomas B., and Ward, Miss Jane.. 389 

Carroll, Mrs. Eliza B 10 

Dashiel, George 158 

Dale, E. W 223 

Daniels, J. B 247 



NO. FT. 


SEC. 


294 


C.H. 


1129 


L.C. 


300 


C.H. 


200 


C.H. 


403 


C.H. 


262 


C.H. 


262 


C.H. 


150 


F. 


400 


F. 


170 


F. 


260 


C.H. 


117 


T. 


234 


F. 


346 


F. 


640 


C. H.C, 


253 


C.H.C, 


144 


S.G. 


218 


T. 


382 


F. 


728 


L.C. 


306 


C.H. 


277 


C.H. 


382 


C.H. 


693 


F. 


88 


F. 


493 


T. 


98 


C.H. 


593 


C.H.C. 


321 


T. 


96 


T. 


351 


T. 


203 


C.H. 


154 


T. 


350 


T. 


235 


T. 


425 


L.C. 


286 


C.H. 


285 


C.H. 


272 


C.H. 



1 88 



Elmwood Cemetery. 



NAMES OP PROPRIETORS. NO. LOT. 

Davis, Charles B 381 

Davis, J. H 441 

Davis, John 478 

Davidson, T. P 1 

Danbury, J. D 145^ 

Dawson, Thomas, and P. Holt 189 

Davis, John 188 

Davidson, S. M 597 

Dalrymple, C. L 309 

Davids, Samuel 59 

Dashiell, Mrs. M 685 

Dalton, Rufus L 281 

Davis, Henry C 662 

Davis, James C sw^349 

Dayton, Mary Ann 767 

Davis, Ann W - 375| 

Davidson, Wm 167 

Davie, Elizabeth H n \ 278 

Driver, E. M., Estate of. ......42, 43, 72, 73 

Denie', John A 30 

Deloach, Josiah 423 

Dent, H. G 10 

Devlin, C. J. C 521 

Denie, John A 179 

Deloach, C 595, 608 

Denton, J. L 604 

Dennis, A. G 62 

Dennis, W 63 

Devin, Mrs. Mary 341 

Dearing, John 308 

Deadrick, Wm. W 591 

Deitrick, Wm. A 484 

Dickson, Robert 389 

Dixon, L. M 3,33 

Dill, Mrs. A. C 118 

Dixon, George 25 

Dill, Wm. E 576 

Dixon, Leonidas V 156 

Dillard, Henry M 89 

Diggs, Busher 73 



NO. FT. 


SEC. 


1.50 


C.H. 


200 


C.H. 


262 


C.H. 


256 


S.G. 


342 


F. 


163 


C.H. 


130 


T. 


123 


C.H. 


202 


C.H. 


352 


T. 


440 


C.H. 


200 


C.H. 


486 


C.H. 


600 


C.H. 


117 


C.H. 


500 


C.H. 


200 


T. 


1781 


F. 


1407 


C.H.C 


460 


C.H. 


262 


C.H. 


248 


T. 


165 


C.H. 


464 


C.H. 


633 


C.H. 


162 


C.H. 


255 


T. 


228 


T. 


95 


T. 


175 


T. 


105 


C.H. 


93 


F. 


120 


C.H. 


144 


C.H. 


624 


T. 


404 


C.H.C 


240 


F. 


288 


S.G. 


509 


T. 


100 


Col'd. 



List of Proprietors. 1 89 



NAMES OF PROPRIETORS. NO. LOT. 

Doyle, W. J. P 347 

Donoho, AVm. B 535 

Donaldson, A. J 92, 93, 94 

Dougherty, J. C, and A. Street 123, 124, 125 

Dollis, H. C 77 

Donnelly, Thomas 177 

Donaldson, Wm 316, 344 

Doraugh, James 216 

Dowdy, Joseph F 73 

Dorion, Charles H 75 

Douglas, Addison H 434 

Dowdy, Joseph F 71 

Drew, J. O. and A. W 15 

Dreissizacker, Elizabeth 94 

Drewry, John T 187 

Duncan, W. R 91 

Dunn, Dudley 60 

Dunn, D. L 84, 85, 86 

Duval, G. W 424 

Dupre, Louis J 632 

Dunbar, Hugh 547 

Duncan, James 365 

Duttlinger, John 540, 541 

Duff, Wm. L 5 

Dupre, Wm. D 196 

Dunscomb, Samuel H. (part of lot) 299 

Dyer, J. S 19 

Dyer, Leander E 59^ 

DeArman, John 725 

Duke, Mrs. George W. and Clayton 66i- 

Dulin, Rice 377^ 

Dominico, Bertha 20 

Dean, Luther M 216 

Dichle, George : 693 

Ebbert, Alfred J 292 

Ebler, Ernest, and Mrs. J. R. Kleiner.... 348 

Eckerly, Gustavus A 531 

Eddins, Virginia 251 

Edmonds, A. N 175 550 F. 



sro. FT. 


SEC. 


280 


C.H. 


1140 


C.H. 


1072 


F. 


934 


F. 


195 


T. 


156 


T. 


153 


T. 


268 


T. 


224 


S.G. 


187 


F. 


262 


C.H. 


250 


S.G. 


333 


F. 


279 


C.H. 


144 


S.G. 


180 


C.H. 


713 


F. 


838 


F. 


262 


C.H. 


534 


C.H. 


138 


C.H. 


70 


T. 


441 


C.H. 


400 


C.H.C. 


232 


S.G. 


880 


C.H. 


286 


C.H. 


250 


F. 


115 


T. 


593 


C.H.C. 


140 


T. 


121 


F. 


131 


S.G. 


174 


C.H. 


308 


T. 


259 


T. 


375 


C.H. 


202 


C.H. 



IQO Elmwood Cemetery. 



NAMES OF PROPRIETORS. NO. LOT. 

Edmondson, J. H , 162, 163, 164 

Edgar, Mrs. Wm 508 

EdriDgton, James H 115 

Edwards, Wm. H 213 

Eenboom, Henry 146 

Eichberg, J. L 162 

Elder, James (part of lot) 299 

Eldridge, Thomas D 44^ 

Ellett, Henry T., and R. B. Maury 128 

Elliott, Wm 492 

Elliott, John D 507 

Elliott, L. H 52 

Ellermann, Mrs. Julia 556 

Elphinstone, George 237 

Ensley, Enoch 13 

Epps,'Wyatt 599 

Erskine, Alexander 77 

Ess, Dorathea 601 

Estes, Bedford M 24, 54 

Eveleth, S. C 526 

Evans, Nannie 235 

Edwards, Charles A 377 

Erek, Charles 576 

Eakin, Mary M 396 

Fagg, Mary E, and J. A. Anderson 12, 15 

Farnsworth, Thomas R 12 

Falls, Gilbrath 68 

Fenner, C. S 141 

Ferguson, W. D 147 

Ferguson, Mrs. Eliza E 354, 355 

Ferguson, Alexander M 95 

Ferguson, Catherine 243 

Ferguson, 160 

Fegan, Edward 379 

Featherston, D. H 84 

Fagan, William N 397 

Fitzgerald, H., and G. Taylor 32 

Fisher, George W. , and G. Falls 90 

Firinie, J. G., and J. F. Sale 20 



NO. FT. 


SEC. 


815 


C.H. 


108 


F. 


825 


L.C. 


270 


T. 


135 


T. 


168 


T. 


S80 


C.H. 


253 


C.H.C 


550 


C.H. 


270 


C.H. 


262 


C.H. 


262 


S.G. 


135 


C.H. 


231 


C.H. 


635 


L.C. 


140 


T. 


120 


C.H. 


139 


F. 


855 


C.H.C 


390 


C.H. 


120 


F. 


140 


T. 


800 


T. 


144 


T. 


667 


S.G. 


440 


C.H.C 


594 


C.H.C 


280 


C.H. 


270 


C.H. 


572 


C.H. 


162 


Col'd. 


176 


F. 


264 


T. 


180 


C.H. 


265 


T. 


99 


T. 


225 


C.H. 


350 


C.H. 


400 


T. 



List of Proprietors. 191 



NAMES OF PROPRIETORS. NO. LOT. NO, FT. 8EC. 

Fire Company No. 5 152,153 G48 F. 

Fleming, A 71 IGO C.H. 

Flaherty, J. M 333^ 168 C.H. 

Flaherty, J. M 44o" 202 C.H. 

Flaherty, J. M 659 2865 C.H. 

Flaherty, J. M 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 

17, 72, 74, 75, 77 1338 Col'd. 

Flaherty, J. M 456,457,458 786 C.H. 

Flaherty, J. M 80, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 88, 89 2658 Col'd. 

Fletcher, Felix M 17 203 F. 

Floyd, James , 21 161 F. 

Flournoy, J. G 90 692 T. 

Flournoy, Thomas C 538^ 216 C.H. 

Fleece, John A 251 175 F. 

Floyd, Richard C 506 102 F. 

Flynn,JohnT 179 96 S.G. 

Ford, Newton 32 885 C.H.C. 

Ford, W. G 366,367 754 C.H. 

Fowlkes, Amelia A 480 310 C.H. 

Fowlkes, Sterling 481 470 C.H. 

Folwell, W. M 615 1316 C.H. 

Fowler, John W 1 1275 F. 

Foute, G. P., and H. D. Small 102 290 T. 

Forsyth, Emily J 48 187 T. 

Folger, Benjamin F 278 162 C.H. 

Fowlkes, Mrs. Dr. Jeptha 373, 375 895 C.H. 

Forrest, General N. B 47 1200 C.H.C. 

Fowlkes, Mrs. Austin 58 185 Col'd. 

Foster, Wm 64 100 Col'd. 

Forster, David B 217^ 210 F. 

Ford, Samuel H 35^ 157 T. 

Forster, Louisa 64 262 S.G. 

Foster, Wm. C. C 276 260 F. 

Frierson, Gardner 38 238 C.H. 

Franklin, James 9 161 F. 

Frick, Nicholas, and J. Burkle 9 846 C.H. 

Frazier, Ceylon B 115 644 C.H. 

Frazier, Dr. John R 82,83 349 F. 

Frank, J. F 166 660 F. 

France, Chas 71 120 F. 



192 Elmwood Cemetery. 



NAMES OF PKOPRIETORS. NO. LOT. 

Frierson, D. B , Estate of 609 

Frick, John, and Mary Schnerring 285 

Friek, Rosa 511 

Frost, James E 461 

Frederick, Edward 482 

Frazer, Rev. Robert 464 

Fulton, Jean Y 352 

Fussell, J. V 12 

Fisher, Thomas A 105 

Fifer, Jacob 568 

Farris, William 28 

Freeman, John J 151 

Fitzgerald, Wiley 696 

Fryfogle, Mary A 404 

Gailor, Francis M 339 

Gailer, Wm. H .; 455 

Gage, Wm. A 280 

Garside, Robert 590 

Gale, Tom, and M. L. Perkins 602 

Gantt, George 622 

Gatti, J. B 170 

Gartrell, J. M 189 

Gair, Isaac 218 

Gale, T. C. 15 

Garrett, Joseph 282 

Gates, S. M 103 

Geugel, John 325 

Geist, Theodore 253 

Gibson, J., and Wm. Kirk 76 

Giles, Thomas 161 

Gilbert, Dr. Samuel 479 

Gibson, J. F 140 

Gill, George M 363, 364 

Gitter, Catherine 315 

Gilbert, J. V 192 

Gill, HenryC 437 

Gibson, Arthur D 58 

Girardeau, Thomas J 532 

Gilmore, Caroline F 591 



0. FT. 


SEC. 


234 


C.H. 


216 


C.H. 


262 


C.H. 


157 


T. 


219 


T. 


262 


T. 


288 


C.H. 


234 


T. 


404 


L.C. 


135 


C.H. 


315 


S.G. 


372 


S.G. 


157 


C.H. 


96 


T. 


110 


C.H. 


209 


T. 


210 


F. 


144 


F. 


96 


F. 


390 


C.H. 


364 


C.H. 


154 


T. 


268 


T. 


227 


T. 


242 


C.H. 


420 


C.H. 


100 


C.H. 


108 


F. 


119 


C.H. 


270 


C.H. 


262 


C.H. 


176 


T. 


736 


C.H. 


155 


T. 


288 


F. 


85 


T. 


31U 


C.H.C 


160 


F. 


360 


T. 



List of Proprietors. 1 93 



NAMES OF PROPRIETORS. XO. LOT. 

Glydwell, John 390 

Glisson, R. H 4-35 

Glisson, W. B 449 

(xlassick, F 228 

Goff, J. D 34 

Goyer, Wm 1(57 

Goyer, C. W 49 

(ioodwyn, Wm. A 132, 133 

Goff, A.L 49 

Goodyear, D. F., and Crook 8 

Goodlett, Wm. H 87 

Goodlett, Henry E 1(5 

Gould, 569 

Goodman, Joseph P 538 

Goodwin, John W 331 

Gore, James P 484 

Gray, J li 35 

Gray, Dr. S L 344 

Gray, Washington L 567 

Gray, Dock 116 

Gray, Mrs. Mary 368 

Grosvenor, H. M 154, 295 

Gregory, Jos. M 203 

Grainger, George, and W. Miller 210 

Groves, David 395 

Greene, Wm. F 61(5 

Graham, B 62, 63, 64 

Greer, David S 24, 94 

Green, Mrs. Sarah B 116 

Graham, James 183 

Grant, James A 264 

Grider, Wm. H 89 

Greenlaw, Wm. B. and J. 250 

Griffing, J. B., and George R. Grant 61 

Griswold, C. A 405 

Griffing, J. C 180, 181, 182, 183 

Greene, L. S 39 

Grant, Lewis 408 

Grieshaber, Joseph 197 

Grove, Wm. L 361 

13 



NO. FT. 


SEC. 


112 


C.H. 


262 


C.H. 


262 


C.H. 


148 


F. 


1248 


C.H. 


624 


F. 


943 


C.H.C, 


539 


F. 


256 


T. 


640 


C.H.C, 


300 


T. 


435 


S.G. 


160 


C.H. 


132 


T. 


120 


C.H. 


195 


T. 


816 


C.H. 


100 


C.H. 


153 


F. 


96 


Col'd. 


110 


T. 


537 


C.H. 


285 


C.H. 


232 


C.H. 


130 


C.H. 


281 


C.H. 


1249 


F. 


417 


T. 


408 


F. 


312 


C.H. 


210 


C.H. 


720 


F. 


1200 


T. 


752 


T. 


121 


C.H. 


1226 


T. 


384 


T. 


126 


C.H. 


315 


F. 


218 


T. 



194 



Elmwood Cemetery. 



NAMES OF PROPRIETOKS. NO. LOT. NO. FT. 

Griffith, H:irriet D 379 90 

Graves, J. M. and H. S , and J. W. 

Maddox 616 830 

Graham, George C 262 224 

Grindrod, Robert 503 120 

Graves, James R 1721 276 

Griffith, Jame? 528"^ 150 

Greenwood, Mary J 600 323 

Green, Nathaniel S 137 220 

Green, Mrs. S. E., and Wm. J. Webb 209 366 

Gross, Benjamin F 355 228 

Gregory, Joseph M 204 440 

Groves, Elizabeth 396 176 

Groomes, Robert L., and Wm. W. Main- 

gault 205 336 

Green, Simon W 15H 240 

GiUett, Allen 223^ 120 

Glass, John H 675 151 

Gaunt, Joseph 405 96 

Glindkamp, Herman 153 236 

Guion, H. L 104 1134 

Griffin, Mary 53 124 

Harris, Wm. R 28 480 

Harris, J. T 29 266 

Harris, Ishani G 172 286 

Harris, A. 605 121 

Harris, Wm. L 738 367 

Harris, A. 2 134 

Harris, Rebecca 3 450 

Hayley, J. H 118 198 

Hamlin, Wm. B 130 632 

Hamlin, J. F., and Quenichet 136, 137, 138 807 

Hannah, Jas 214 240 

Halstead, J 362 288 

Hancock, Captain A. S 22 300 

Hawks, M., and J. B. Sharpe 74 408 

Hart, W. W.,Jr 148 200 

Hantsman, G. T., Estate of. 500 262 

Hayden, E. B 63 262 



SEC. 



T. 

C.H. 

T. 

F. 

T. 

C.H. 

F. 

F. 

T. 

C.H. 

C.H. 

F. 

F. 

T. 

C.H. 

F. 

C.H. 

C.H. 

Col'd. 

C.H. 

C.H. 

C.H. 

C.H. 

C.H. 

Col'd. 

C. H. C. 

C.H. 

C.H. 

C.H. 

C.H. 

C.H. 

T. 

T. 

C.H. 

C.H. 

S.G. 



List of Proprietors. 195 



NAMES OF PROPRIETORS. NO. LOT. 

Harape, H. G., and \V. Reinhardt 104 

Hardin, Wra. F 251 

Hamncr, Theodore A 65 

Hasel], Bently D Ill 

Hamilton, Caj^taiu J., Heirs of. 90^ 

Hall, Wm 176 

Hart, J 314 

Hach, Philip 559 

Hatch, F 159 

Hammersley, Mrs. Captain 676 

Haramar, B, E 279 

Hawley, Z. K 182 

Hampton, H. W 313 

Harrison, C. A 277 

Hays, A. J 252 

Halle, D. H 318, 342 

Harper, Joseph 322 

Halstead, J 431 

Harder, Henry 25 

Hammock, Robert L 13 

Harbert, John 107 

Harbert, John 20,21 

Hartie, Caroline 526 

Hamilton, Thomas A 22 

Hach, Agatha 565 

Hanson , John P 542 

Haskins, William 188 

Harver, George W 504 

Hannauer, Louis 30 

Haskin, AVilliam B 592 

Harback, J. C 281 

Hamilton, Morris, Estate of. 69 

Haessig, Dan'l H., and Meyer, Aloys 660 

Henry, Mrs 96 

Hester, C. J 36 

Henry, A. J 497 

Hendrickson, C. R 8 

Heuer, A. F., and W. C. Warner 413 

Heckle, F., and C. and J. A. Auer 537 

Herndon, DeWitt C 208 



NO. FT. 


SEC. 


215 


T. 


1104 


T. 


97 


F. 


234 


F. 


308 


T. 


123 


T. 


160 


C.H. 


150 


C.H. 


187 


T. 


112 


C.H. 


102 


T. 


252 


C.H. 


190 


C.H. 


169 


T. 


1007 


T. 


179 


T. 


149 


T. 


262 


C.H. 


224 


F. 


396 


C.H.C. 


114 


Col'd. 


988 


C.H.C. 


168 


T. 


412 


C.H.C. 


140 


C.H. 


92 


T. 


200 


S.G. 


96 


F. 


400 


L.C. 


277 


T. 


126 


T. 


100 


Col'd. 


288 


T. 


262 


S.G. 


673 


C.H. 


262 


C.H. 


300 


T. 


240 


C.H. 


646 


C.H. 


224 


S.G. 



196 Ebnwood Cemetery. 



NAMES OF PROPRIETORS. NO. LOT. 

Hill, William A 470 

Hill, John B 21 

Hill, I. M 81, 84 

Hill, Duncan 129 

Hill, HuraeF 359 

Hill, Thomas 108 

Hill, AVilliam Kenan 77 

Hill, Sam 71 

Hill, Oiitten L 440 

Hiestand,P 246 

Hirth, N 564 

Hibbitt, Mrs. Ellen W 110 

Hinsou, Shelton 545 

Hickman, Benj. W 406 

Helbing, Agnes 562 

Hicks, James F 61 

Hinton, Mrs. Minnie 561 

Hines, Rev. R 174 

Hoist, C. K 200, 201 

Hoist, C. K 242, 243, 244 

Hoist, C. K 106, 112 

Hoist, C. K 259, 260 

Hoist, Ellen = 577 

Hoist, J. C. & Co 75 

Hoist, J. C. & Co 208, 235 

Hoist, J. C. & Co h^, 61 

Hoist, J. C. & Co 28 

Hoist, J. C. & Co 458, 459, 475, 476 

Hoist, J. C. & Co 460, 474 

Hoist, J. C. & Co 30 

Hoist, J. C. & Co 31 

Hoist, J. C. & Co 32 

Hoist, J. C. & Co 33 

Hoist, J. C. & Co 423 

Hoist, J. C. & Co 424 

Hoist, J. C. & Co 75 

Hoist, J. C. & Co 121 

Hoist, J. C. & Co 422 

Hoist, J. C. & Co 421 

«C. P. L. Colored Pauper Lot. 



NO. FT. 


e-EC. 


199 


T. 


222 


C.H. 


990 


C.H. 


600 


C.H. 


305 


C.H. 


165 


F. 


822 


F. 


100 


Col'd.. 


165 


T. 


286 


C.H. 


135 


C.H. 


198 


C.H. 


181 


T. 


96 


F. 


143 


T. 


512 


C. H.C. 


135 


C.H. 


390 


C.H. 


220 


T. 


397 


T. 


436 


F. 


1392 


T. 


600 


T. 


230 


T. 


554 


T. 


432 


Col'd.. 


400 


F. 


749 


T. 


288 


T. 


430 


F. 


527 


F. 


390 


F. 


258 


F. 


644 


T. 


336 


T. 


230 


T. 


4800 


*C.P.L. 


696 


T. 


258 


T. 



List of Proprietors. 



197 



NAMES OF PROPRIETORS. NO 

Hoist, J. C. & Co 

Hoist, J. C. & Co 

Hoist, J. C. & Co 

Hoist, J. C. & Co 

Hoist, J. C. & Co 

Hoist, J. C. & Co 

Hoist, J. C. & Co 

Hopkins, A. M 

Howard, J. M 

Hoyle, Allen 

Hoffman, John P 

Holt, B. W. L 

Howell, H.B 

Howcott, Dr 

House, J. H 

Horton, C M. and H. C, and J. B. Sharpe, 

Houston, John 

Howze, George A 

Holder, Mrs. Georgiana 

Horn, Thomas T 

Houston, John 

Hoedley, E. K 

Holmes, George L 197, 

Hodges, B. D., and J. C. Terry 

House, J. H 

Holt, N. B. and J. A 

Hodges, Dr. W. R 

Hollis, Charles J 

Horusby, Joseph C 

Howard, Wardlow 

Hock, Frederika W 

Howard, Agatha 

Hood, John 

Holt, Peter, and Thomas Dawson 

Hollenberg, Henry G 

Hoan, Mrs. Mary 

Humphries, Mrs. Susan 

Hume, G. B 

Hughes, Alexander and Ridler 

Hunt, W. H 



. LOT. 


NO. FT. 


SEC. 


129 


216 


T. 


55 


216 


Col'd. 


121 


4800 


Col'd. 


605 


1440 


F. 


607 


1200 


F. 


606 


1200 


F. 


2 


4700 


T. 


41 


1104 


C.H. 


55 


1155 


C.H. 


113 


183 


C.H. 


124 


252 


C.H. 


327 


110 


C.H. 


27 


344 


C.H.C 


40 


150 


T. 


46 


159 


T. 


69 


420 


T. 


51 


262 


S.G. 


606 


117 


C.H. 


277 


130 


C.H. 


326 


143 


C.H. 


123 


309 


T. 


397 


127 


C.H. 


198 


456 


C.H. 


181 


750 


F. 


46 


159 


T. 


225 


2G8 


T. 


246 


185 


F. 


537 


138 


T. 


239 


115 


F. 


614 


650 


T. 


240 


119 


F. 


551 


81 


F. 


559 


138 


T. 


189 


163 


C.H. 


487 


187 


T. 


677 


190 


C.H. 


80 


178 


C.H. 


151 


180 


C.H. 


169 


306 


C.H. 


496 


262 


C.H. 



198 Elmwood Cemete7y. 



NAMES OF PROPRIETORS. NO. LOT. 

Hunter, J. R 14 

Hubbell, J. H., and N. Hurd 45 

Hutchinson, AVm 617 

Hunter, Win , 119 

Hutton, W. M 114 

Hunt, John M 194 

Hume, Wm. A 434 

Hudnall, George M 1 

Hunt, Eliza T. and Wm. R 40, 41, 70, 71 

Hug, Augusta 348^- 

Hunter, Mary A 592 

Hunt, T. W., and Samuel Mosby 168, 169 

Hulls, G. T., and D. Caldwell 147 

Hudnell, Miles F 216^ 

Hunn, Alexander 105 

Hyatt, Mrs. 205 

Hester, John B 735 

Hill, Napoleon, Martin and Wood 79 

Hopson, Wm. J 626 

Hargan, Margaret 477 

Ing, John \?>\ 

Ingraham, Julia S 237 

Irby, S. H 68 

Irwine, T. W 298 

Irwin, W. T 503 

Iredale, T. J 220 

Irwing, John 492 

Isbell,Kate 62^ 

Irvine, Francis W 169, 170 . 

James, Thomas 55 

James, J. W 371 

James, Thomas, and G. Mellersh 177 

James, H. M., and S. A. Wilson 661 

James, Henry, and Jos. Roosa 261 v 

Jack, Wm 6 

Jackson, D. F 411 

Jackson, Clara 108 

Jackson, Cin., and Alfred M. Scarbrough 12 



NO. FT. 


SEC. 


174 


T. 


190 


F. 


231 


C.H. 


240 


T. 


249 


T. 


288 


F. 


240 


T. 


627 


C. H.C. 


1505 


C.H.C. 


159 


T. 


96 


F. 


1330 


F. 


456 


F. 


108 


F. 


234 


T. 


135 


T. 


637 


T. 


1075 


L.C, 


148 


T. 


147 


T. 


406 


F, 


102 


F. 


141 


F. 


121 


T. 


262 


C.H. 


140 


F. 


149 


T. 


524 


C.H.C 


538 


T. 


253 


T. 


312 


C.H. 


375 


C.H. 


486 


C.H. 


235 


F. 


325 


T. 


150 


C.H. 


96 


Col'd, 


493 


LC. 



List oj Proprietors. 199 



NAMES OF PROPRIETOKS. NO. LOT. 

Jarinan, L. T 117 

Jennings, Mrs. H. S 65 

Jeffersou, Joshua T 519 

Jefferson, Silas W., Estate of. 114 

Jones, J. C 220 

Jones, J. R 139 

Jones, W. A 386 

Jones, G. W 430 

Jones, Governor J. C 613, 614 

Jones, J. E., and Wm. McNabb 11 

Jones, R. S 261 

Jones, J. W. A 307 

Jones, L. P 233 

Jones, Naomi 472 

Jones, Eliza L 567 

Jones, Paul S 613 

Jones, Wm. C 255 

Jones, Charles 48 

Jones, Edward C 60 

Johnson, John 164, 165 

Jobe, S. M 253 

Johnson, D. B 667 

Johnston, Charles W 682 

Johnson, M. D 26 

Josey, Clementine 739 

Jouette, 106 

Johnson, John C 706, 720 

Johnson , Cyrus 707, 7 1 9 

Johnson, Richard H 450 

Johnston, James V 328 

Johnson, Thomas J 508 

Johnston, Charles P 672^ 

Johnson, Nancy M 110 

Jones, Philip B 402 

Joyce, William W 319 

Johnson, Mary B 27 

Jenny, John J 510^ 

Jones, Daniel C 201 

Joyner, Wm 24 



NO. FT. 


SEC. 


240 


T. 


240 


T. 


262 


C.H. 


750 


L.C. 


323 


C.H. 


225 


C.H. 


139 


C.H. 


262 


C.H. 


907 


C.H. 


280 


T. 


954 


T. 


136 


T. 


136 


F. 


105 


T. 


969 


T. 


532 


T. 


200 


C.H. 


1000 


C.H.C, 


594 


C.H.C. 


1020 


F. 


387 


T. 


180 


C.H. 


279 


C.H. 


204 


F. 


168 


C.H. 


255 


T. 


549 


C.H. 


446 


C.H. 


180 


T. 


303 


T. 


152 


T. 


120 


C.H. : 


523 


L.C. 


144 


T. 


240 


F. 


292 


S.G. 


285 


nn ^j 


256 


C.H. 


571 


L.C. 



200 



Ebnwood Cemetery. 



NAMES OF PROPRIETORS. NO. LOT. 

Kay, R. L 155 

Kay, Emma L 746 

Keller, Joseph 134 

Keller, Andrew J 596 

Ketchum, Annie C 613 

Kendall, Peter 437 

Kenney, Col. E. ^y 5 

Kellerman, Louise 274 

Kehoe, Wra 18 

Kerr, John 265 

Kerr, James H 224 

Kenneday, Wm. H., and Alex. Rudd 147 

Keck and Smith 62, 92 

Keil, Susanna 314 

Kerr, Andrew H 23, 53 

Kealhofer, Charles W 598 

Kirtland, I. B 4 

King and Strain , 31 

Kirk, Wm., and J. Gibson 76 

King, E. W. M 83 

Kingsbury, T. D 116 

King, John 19 

King, H. S 353 

Kirby, C. C 173 

Kirvvan, A. C 358 

King, M. C 86 

Kimbrough, J. C 53 

Kney, C 338 

King, George AV 102 

Kibbe, Wm. A 595 

King, Julia 191 

Klinck, H. J 429 

Klinck, W 238 

Knowlton, L. S 280 

Kortrecht, Charles 76 

Koehler, Herman 404 

Kohlberg, August 385 

Langboiue, Charles 321 



NO. FT. 


SEC. 


187 


C.H. 


128 


C.H. 


348 


C.H. 


240 


T. 


262 


C.H. 


262 


C.H. 


1350 


F. 


104 


C.H. 


184 


F. 


399 


T. 


168 


F. 


236 


T. 


1134 


Col'd. 


137 


T. 


777 


C.H.C 


170 


T. 


462 


C.H. 


276 


C.H. 


119 


C.H. 


627 


C.H. 


203 


C.H. 


140 


T. 


294 


C.H. 


120 


T. 


486 


C.H. 


423 


T. 


302 


T. 


240 


T. 


162 


Col'd. 


96 


F. 


144 


S.G. 


262 


C.H. 


130 


T. 


120 


T. 


1200 


C.H.C 


96 


F. 


165 


T. 



153 C.H. 



List of Proprietors. 201 



NAMES OF rROPRIETORS. ^ NO. LOT. NO. FT. SEC. 

Lamb, S. H 365 300 C.H. 

Lamb, James M 230 232 F. 

Latham, F. S 592,593, 610 630 C.H. 

Lane, Fletcher 348 868 C.H. 

Lampert, C. F 112 181 T. 

Lauderdale, S. R 233 266 T. 

Lanier, John C 630 522 C.H. 

Lawrance, Levi, and Wm. E, Louder 617 650 T. 

Lancaster, W. G 212 266 T. 

Lake, Daniel 28 417 C.H.C. 

Lane, George 495 142 T. 

Lamberson, Thomas. .. ,.,, 67 262 S.G. 

LaGrill, Louis 218 165 F. 

Lawton, Rella 405 14S T. 

Leatherman, Davidson M 1 1241 C.H. 

Leonard, Thomas, Brown & Co 477 512 C.H. 

Lester, Stephen J 498 262 C.H. 

Leech, Archibald D 612 561 C.H. 

Levett, J. S 117 288 F. 

Lenow, Josepli 8 1768 S.G. 

Lenow, John H 45 589 S.G. 

Lenoir, Thomas B 229, 230, 231, 232, 233 1231 C.H. 

Leath, James T 134,135 602 T. 

Lewis, Wra. P 178 426 F. 

Lemon, H 157 203 T. 

Lewis, Mrs. Mary 64 189 T. 

Lewis, J. H 158 203 T. 

Leadbetter, T. W., and Estate of C. A. 

Moores 701 204 C.H. 

Lehner, John 253 199 C.H. 

Lee, James W., Jr 565 1250 T. 

Leech, John B 445 272 C.H. 

Leftwich, John W 248 500 T. 

LeClerc, Felix 310 172 T. 

Learned, Paschal P 544 182 T. 

Leatherman, D. M 87 100 Col'd. 

Lea, John A 272 476 F. 

Ledbetter, Samuel P 205 192 S.G. 

Leverett, William 219 262 T. 

Lees, John T 250 156 F. 



202 



Elmwood Cemetery. 



NAMES OF PROPRIETORS. NO. 

Lewis, Barbour 

Leslie, Jane H 

Leidy, Eugene H 

Leath Orphan Asylum, Trustees of 420, 

Linville, Thomas D 

Lindsay, M. W. , Heirs of. 

Lindsay, James D 

Lingner, Mrs. Elizabeth 

Linkhauer, Jacob 

Life, E 

Lisenberry, Mrs. C 

Littlefield, Catherine W 

Lincoln , Mary A 

Lippold, Herman C 

Lowry, W. J 

Locke, G. B 

Lowden, John 

Lonsdale, J. G 

Logwood, Thomas H 

Louis, Fred. W 

Lloyd, S. S 

Lopez, Joseph C 

Lory, Joseph 

Lucas, W. R 

Ludy , Madeline 

Luff, Mrs. Diana 

Lucas, Lecoy 

Luff, James C 

Luhrmann, Henry 

Lynch, Mrs. S. M 

Lynch, Montgomery 596, 

Lynn, Henry J 

Lea, Georgiaua 

Letson, Gabriel H 

Littlejohn, W. W. and W. J 

Lang, John 

Leake, Samuel, Estate of. 

Masonic Lodges 

Maneese, Mrs. M. S 



LOT, 


NO. FT. 


SEC. 


42^ 


300 


C.H. 


194 


96 


S.G.' 


109 


486 


L.C. 


425 


523 


T. 


163 


330 


F. 


144 


80 


C.H. 


116 


224 


T. 


406 


130 


C.H. 


58 


336 


T. 


184 


178 


T. 


l?y 


112 


C.H. 


204 


15)2 


S.G. 


522 


150 


T. 


765 


182 


C.H. 


187 


247 


C.H. 


242 


476 


C.H. 


468 


560 


C.H. 


10 


522 


C.H.C, 


74 


675 


C.H.C. 


236 


121 


F. 


57 


382 


C.H.C, 


248 


168 


F. 


194 


297 


T. 


204 


342 


F. 


223 


180 


F. 


673 


142 


C.H. 


148 


210 


T. 


674 


135 


C.H. 


102 


441 


C.H. 


202 


272 


C.H. 


597 


240 


F. 


184 


184 


S.G. 


48 


100 


Col'd. 


215 


131 


S.G. 


695 


150 


C.H. 


553 


180 


T. 


313 


324 


F. 


612 


20000 


T. 


63 


176 


C.H. 



List of Prop7'icto7^s. 



20 



NAMES OF PROPRIETORS. NO. 

Maxwell, Wm. L 

Mabson, A 

Mabsoii, Jane E 

Maltbie, J. R 

Marley, Newton and Y. F 

May, Charles 

Madding, Franklin 

Mahler, F., and J. Boke 

Maydwell, C. C 

Mayd well, Thomas 

Maydwell, James 

Maiiafiy, Mary L 

Manscoe, Mrs. Matilda 

Mansfield, S 290, 

Martin, B., and G. R. Redford 

!Maury, Abner 

Maury, Richard B., and H. T. Ellett 

Mathews, Mrs. F 

Maender, G. F 

May,W. B 

Maddox, H. S,, and J. W. and S. M. Graves 

Maddox, 

Maier, Veronika 

Magevney, Michael 

Marshall, Jane 

Marshall, Erastus 

Marden, Daniel G 

Massie, Annie M 

May, William B 

Martin, Major J 

Maingault,AVm."\V'. , and Rob't L. Groomes 

Margerura, G. V 

Memphis Typographical Union 

Metropolitan Police Commissioners 

Merrill, Alexander H 

Merrill, A. P 

Merril 1 , Branham 

Merriman, J. E 

Mellersh, George, and Thomas James 

Meyer, Frank 



LOT. 


NO. FT. 


SEC. 


92 


720 


C.H. 


200 


no 


C.H. 


385 


180 


C.H. 


427 


262 


C.H. 


141 


275 


F. 


193 


270 


T. 


50 


262 


S.G. 


499 


402 


C.H. 


191 


204 


T. 


39 


156 


F. 


588 


585 


T. 


420 


262 


C.H, 


403 


122 


C.H. 


293 


637 


C.H. 


81 


343 


F. 


21 


193 


T. 


128 


550 


C.H. 


269 


136 


T. 


539 


175 


C.H. 


222 


148 


F. 


616 


830 


T. 


96 


264 


F. 


196 


438 


F. 


51 


764 


C.H.C, 


740 


192 


C.H. 


183 


208 


S.G. 


513 


115 


T. 


5681 


150 


C.H. 


218i 


148 


F. 


560 


105 


T. 


205 


336 


F. 


15 


363 


L.C. 


279 


1000 


F. 


416 


450 


T. 


522 


262 


C.H. 


43 


1105 


C.H. 


206 


290 


C.H. 


167 


330 


C.H. 


177 


375 


C.H. 


273 


144 


T. 



204 



Elmwood Cemetery. 



NAMES OF PROPRIETORS. NO. LOT. NO. FT. SEC. 

Mellersh, Frank 293 218 T. 

Merriwether, Niles 310 271 C.H. 

Melrose, Annie 498 102 T. 

Meyers, Charles H., and Gustavus Reder. 210 411 F. 

Mentges, Peter 580 214 C.H. 

Merath,JohnB 579i 294 C.H. 

Meyer, Aloys, and Haessig, Dan'l H 660 288 T. 

Miller, Jacob 18 207 C.H. 

Miller, Wilie B 26 1110 C.H. 

Miller, W. L 125, 126 708 C.H. 

Miller, W. H., and George Grainger 210 232 C.H. 

Miller, A. B 330 115 C.H. 

Miller, Adam 309 137 T. 

Miller, Will: am 543 168 T. 

Mitchell, R. B 142 340 C.H. 

Mitchell, John H 154 147 T. 

Mitchell, M.R 483 270 C.H. 

Mitchell, Hoffman & Co 664 1720 C.H. 

Mitchell, Hoffman & Co 90 640 Col'd. 

Mitchell, Samuel A 306 202 C.H. 

Mitchell, Maurice.... 436 120 T. 

Middaugh, M. H 187 154 T. 

Mickle, James D 254 171 C.H. 

Michot, Edward L 369 114 T. 

Mills, JohuC 198 330 F. 

Minter, Isaac 76 100 Col'd. 

Molloy, D. B wi33 621 C.H. 

Moore, John L 74,75 409 C.H. 

Moore, Callaway B 583 405 T. 

Moore, Solomon 97 108 Col'd. 

Montgomery, A. J 123 1239 C.H. 

Morton, Q. L 131 280 C.H. 

Morgan, G. W 425 262 C.H. 

Morgan, M. A. E 275 126 C.H. 

Morgan, Susan A and Allen F 26 287 C.H.C. 

Morgan, Robert J 11 370 C.H.C. 

Morris, C. C 87, 88, 102 786 F. 

Morris, Chew 5 144 Col'd. 

Morrison, John 100 270 F. 

Morrison, A. D 67 101 F. 



List of Proprietors. 



205 



NAMES OF PROPRIETORS. NO 

Moon, Robert A e 

Moon, Jacob N 

Moon, C. E., Estate of, and T. W. Led- 

better 

Moreland, Wra. L 

Moreland, John W 

Moseley, J. B 

Mosby, Sara'l, and Heirs of T. W. Hunt.. 168, 

Mosby, Samuel 

Moseby , Easter 

Mosby, Pleasant, Estate of 

Mosby, Charles W 

Montany, F. B 

Monroe, D. W., and G. W. Baxter n 

Mottley, Anthony 

Moffutt, James G 

Mount, S. C, and J. W., and J. and Is". 

S. B-uce 

Mur2:)hy, J. J 

Murrah, Jos. K., and C. B. Buchanan.... 

Musso, Joseph 

Mullin, W. C 

McClure, Warren C 

McClure, Rev. Edward 

McPherson, C. G 

McDouough, L 

McGehee, E 

McGehee, M. H 

McNutt, S. F 

McAlenny, J. L 

McNabb, Wm., and J. R. Jones 

McCoy, Mrs. Elizabeth 

McConnell, James 

McAnally, Wm. W 

McGinnis, A. B 

McKnight, J. M 

McComb, Mrs. M. A 

McGary, AV. L 

McCabb, Mrs. N. P 

McEwen, 



. LOT. 


NO. FT. 


SEC. 


433 


621 


C.H. 


7.H 


550 


C.H.C 


701 


204 


C.H. 


399 


116 


C.H. 


742 


128 


C.H. 


234 


198 


C.H. 


169 


1330 


F. 


170 


1100 


F. 


93 


125 


Col'd. 


Tm. 


120 


F. 


281 


186 


F. 


55 


262 


S.G. 


i98 


13U 


F. 


49 


135 


Col'd. 


766 


143 


C.H. 


145 


1080 


F. 


350 


500 


C.H. 


8 


200 


F. 


402 


125 


C.H. 


134 


189 


F. 


17 


288 


C.H. 


210 


266 


T. 


218 


208 


C.H. 


267 


208 


C.H. 


356 


1200 


C.H. 


619 


648 


C.H. 


185 


672 


F. 


98 


263 


F. 


11 


280 


T. 


336 


111 


C.H. 


212 


286 


C.H. 


213 


253 


C.H. 


95 


264 


T. 


128 


263 


F. 


660 


806 


C.H. 


377 


231 


C.H. 


101 


338 


T. 


485 


423 


C.H. 



2o6 Elmwood Cemetery. 



NAMES OF PROPRIETORS. NO. LOT. 

Mclntyre, J. N 542 

McMullin, Mrs. G. W 367 

McClelland, Mrs. \Y. R., J. F. Sellers, 

and AV. F. Boyle 184 

McKinney, Dr. A. F. , Estate of 187 

McCleary, Archibald and Thompson 312 

McNear, Alex. S 283 

McLane, Jenny GO 

McCain, Rufus H 114 

Mcllvain, Wm. G., and Edwd. Sossomau. 453 

McCrea, Margaret s -^ 278 

McCain, James 500 

McDavitt, James H 299 

McCullouch, Benj. W 29 

McClemons, William 254 

McFarlaue, Mollie N 583 

McGuire, Wm. E., and Wm. L. Radford 35 

McHenry, Anna 481 

McGee, William V.. 518 

McKinney, James W 38 

Montgomery, Henry A Ill 

McMurray, Mrs. M 181 

McMauus, James C 9 

Martin, J. H., Wood and Hill 79 

Massey, Elbert W 715 

Moore, William M 697i 

Meacham, Major L., and Stewart, Wm... 80 

Nance, Mrs. Lucy A 439 

Nagel, J. C 702 

Neill, James Q, 5 

Newby, O. P 47 

Nevils, J. A 450 

Newsom, John 148 

Newman, F. W 543 

Newsom, Mrs. E. K., and Mrs. M. C. 

Trader 54 

Neal, John 226 

Nelson, Eugenie 311 

Nelson, John H 464^ 



10. FT. 


SEC. 


140 


C.H. 


93 


T. 


736 


F. 


672 


F. 


212 


T. 


180 


T. 


300 


Col'd. 


114 


Col'd. 


301 


T. 


1781 


F. 


90 


T. 


1102 


C.H. 


612 


C.H.C 


130 


F. 


225 


C.H. 


400 


L.C. 


93 


F. 


155 


T. 


462 


C.H.C 


508 


L.C. 


240 


S.G. 


695 


C.H.C 


1075 


L.C. 


90 


T. 


110 


C.H. 


910 


L.C. 


262 


C.H. 


95 


C.H. 


341 


C.H. 


153 


T. 


262 


C.H. 


480 


F. 


150 


C.H. 


247 


F. 


152 


F. 


140 


T. 


218 


T. 



List of Proprietors. 207 



NAMES OP rROPRIETORS. NO. LOT. 

Nelson, Stith M., Estate of. 60 

Nelson, Tliomas xV 29 

Niederer, Edward 602 

Norton, Sarah E 1 

Norment, T. B 78 

Norris, B. E 226 

Noel, Theodore 139 

Nolan, Henry 239 

Nolton, Eugenie W 225 

Norton, Nathan F 655 

Niietzel, Harriet 7 

Odd Fellows 120 

Offutt, Albert N 247 

O'Hara, C. M 703 

Oliver, George 324 

Oliver, Joseph N 19 

Olrastead, B. J 101 

Oberst, Mrs. Rosina. 589 

Orne, Richard E 14 

Orr, James A 749 

Ostman, Sybile 671i 

Outlaw, EdmondW 400^ 

Owen, Miles 8 

Owensby, Milton 221 

Park, David 10 

Park, ThomasC 188 

Page, D. C 45 

Page, John F 79 

Parker, M , 111 

Parker, O. B 2 

Pattison, Mrs. L. H. and A. P 345, 346 

Pattison, George 82 

Padgett, C. M 35 

Padgett, Wesley L 36 

Partin, Lodwick 118 

Patillo, R.H 181 

Patillo, Harriet J .. 178 

Paine, C, Heirs of. 177 



NO. FT. 


SEC. 


362 


C.H. 


420 


L.C. 


200 


C.H. 


470 


L.C. 


214 


C.H. 


380 


C.H. 


312 


F. 


115 


T. 


184 


F. 


144 


T. 


195 


F. 


16052 


F. 


266 


F. 


99 


C.H. 


90 


C.H. 


420 


L.C. 


265 


F. 


156 


F. 


1343 


C.H. 


115 


C.H. 


138 


C.H. 


141 


CH. 


1045 


C.H. 


140 


F. 


1156 


C.H. 


400 


F. 


547 


C.H. 


100 


Col'd. 


200 


C.H. 


1150 


T. 


330 


C.H. 


646 


T. 


208 


F. 


150 


F. 


260 


F. 


286 


C.H. 


299 


C.H. 


450 


F. 



208 



Elmwood Cemetery. 



NAMES OF PROPRIETORS. 

Pavkl, Mrs. Rosalie 

Patter:;on, H. G 

Patterson, Mary E 

Patterson, Page M 

Paterson, Charles T 

Packer, Henry B 

Parrish, M. R 

Patrick, 

Patrick, John M 

Partee, Hiram A 

Pascal!, Jerry 

Paine, James A 

Penn , James 

Penn, James 

Penn, Letitia B 

Perkins, Jacob 

Perkins, Marland L., and T. Gale 

Pearson, S. J 

Person, Wm 

Person, R. J -•■ 

Peter, H. W 

Petersen, Theodore 

Peters, John M 

Peterson, John H 

Peabody, John M 

Peyton, James T., and John A. Sims... 

Pearce, McCallister C 

Pendleton, Mrs. E. J 

Pfichterer, Frederick 

Phillips, Samuel W 

Phillips, Charles J 

Phillips Charles J., and Levin H. Coe 

Ph i 1 i p p i , A n d r e w 

Philler, George 

Philniott, Veronica 

Pitman, R. R 

Pitman, AVm. and R. R 

Pitman, Gilly 

Pittman, Mrs. T. F 

Pimm, Joseph 



NO. 



LOT. 


NO. FT. 


SEC. 


393 


154 


C.H. 


301 


114 


T. 


72 


203 


F. 


584 


516 


T. 


195 


96 


S.G. 


588 


180 


C.H. 


410 


140 


C.H. 


24 


100 


Col'd. 


370 


500 


C.H. 


16 


760 


C.H.C. 


627 


96 


T. 


560 


192 


F. 


51 


1053 


C.H. 


488 


262 


C.H. 


578 


160 


F. 


217 


234 


C.H. 


602 


96 


F. 


229 


263 


T. 


257 


1200 


T. 


568 


1168 


T. 


165 


420 


T. 


482 


275 


C.H. 


76 


162 


F. 


747 


146 


C.H. 


731 


208 


C.H. 


55 


402 


C.H.C. 


232 


263 


T. 


231 


266 


T. 


591 


140 


F. 


360 


397 


T. 


240 


323 


C.H. 


46 


,600 


C.H.C 


416 


140 


C.H. 


73 


256 


F. 


489 


182 


T. 


114 


268 


C.H. 


391 


126 


C.H. 


394 


127 


C.H. 


278 


181 


T. 


50 


160 


F. 



List of Proprietors. 209 



NAMES OF PROPRIETORS. NO. LOT. 

Pickett, Ed. Burke 252 

Pickett, Wm. S 258, 259, 2G0, 261 

Plummer, W. T 16 

Plummer, E. S 274 

Polk, A. J 47 

Porter, Martha A 56 

Porter, E. R •. 120, 121 

Porter, Ethel N 103 

Porter, D. T 128 

Porter, Jane 2 

Powers, C. S 268 

Poston, Wm. K 124, 125 

Pooley, James and Wm 179 

Powel, George R 126 

Pope, John 618 

Pope, McryE 234, 260 

Pollock, Kate, and W. V. Busby, and S. 

Whitten 748 

Pointer, David 315 

Pool, Samuel A 507^ 

Provine, J. M 57, 58^ 

Preseott, John P •• 144 

Prescott, O. F 384 

Preston, Mrs. T. W 52 

Proudfit, W. P 248 

Proudfit, Wm., and B. B. Barnes 596 

Pritchard, Dorcas E 39 

Putnam, L. S 302 

Pinson, Mrs. R. A 34 

Pollock, Alexander J 34 

Pythias, Knights of... 413, 414, 415, 430, 431, 432 

Quenichet, John W., and Hamlili...l36, 137, 138 
Quigley, Jas. D. , and John W. Wilkerson. 722 

Quinlan, John C 680 

Ragland, Mrs. Elizabeth 121, 127 

Ragland, J. 113 

Ragan, M. B 72 

Rawlings, Sarah J 79 

14 



NO. FT. 


SEC. 


210 


C.H. 


888 


C.H. 


228 


F. 


289 


T. 


500 


C.H. 


506 


C.H. 


509 


C.H. 


641 


F. 


243 


T. 


305 


S.G. 


165 


C.H. 


1020 


T. 


690 


F. 


285 


F. 


731 


C.H. 


300 


F. 


170 


C.H. 


497 


F. 


117 


T. 


658 


C.H. 


567 


F. 


160 


C.H. 


660 


C.H.C. 


234 


C.H. 


152 


C.H. 


277 


S.G. 


100 


T. 


640 


C.H.C, 


144 


T. 


1942 


T. 


S07 


C.H. 


280 


C.H. 


96 


T. 


630 


F. 


264 


F. 


232 


T. 


264 


T. 



2IO 



Elmwood Cemetery. 



NAMES OF PROPRIETORS. NO. LOT. 

Ragsdale, F. A 80 

Randle, John E 161 

Raukin, Rev. Adam L 244 

Ransom, Judah W 261 

Rawlings, J. L. and V. A 2 

Radford, Wm. L., and W. E. McGuire... 35 

Ransom, Lemuel C 594 

Rapp, John, and Elias H, Brown .. 481 

Reid, Ben 208 

Redmond, Reuben T 127 

Rembert, S'^rah R 1 

Remhardt, W., and H. G. Hampe 104 

Reid, Arch 166 

Reeve, T. N 366 

Rehkoff, Henry 340 

Renkert, A 110 

Redford, George R., and B. Martin 81 

Reder, Gust., and C. H. Meyers 210 

Redford, Wm. A., and Wm. H. Beasley.. 486 

Redford, Wm. A - 485 

Renner, Ernest A 506 

Reid, John 109 

Rhodes, Vernon 4 

Ringwald, John 133 

Richards, Walter 191 

Richardson, R. V 228 

Richardson, C. G 3 

Richards, Chas. W 153 

Richards, Frank S 285 

Richards, Louis R 59 

Richmond, Chas 341 

Risk, E. F 146 

Riggs, James 750 

Rix, John 741 

Richert, Ida 462 

Ridler, Alexander, and Hughes 169 

Ringwald, John 135 

Ritchey, Adelbert L 160^ 

Ries, Frederick 150 

Robards, Howell R 44 



NO. FT. 


SEC. 


266 


T. 


210 


T. 


138 


F. 


200 


F. 


456 


C. H.C. 


400 


L.C. 


227 


T. 


323 


T. 


230 


C.H. 


275 


T. 


800 


T. 


215 


T. 


384 


T. 


70 


T. 


99 


T. 


296 


T. 


343 


F. 


411 


F. 


140 


F. 


96 


F. 


234 


T. 


200 


C.H. 


840 


T. 


365 


C.H. 


288 


C.H. 


380 


C.H. 


400 


T. 


140 


T. 


308 


T. 


311 


C. H.C. 


112 


C.H. 


504 


F. 


152 


C.H. 


144 


C.H. 


157 


T. 


306 


C.H. 


372 


C.H. 


200 


C.H. 


148 


T. 


900 


C.H, 



List of Proprietors. 211 



NAMES OF PROPIUETORS. NO. EOT. NO. FT. SEC. 

Rosser, J. D 04 292 C.H. 

Robb, J. H 117 195 C.H. 

Robinson, James 227 28<S C.H. 

Robinson, Wm, A 140 2G1 F. 

Robinson, Alexander 43 2(52 S.G. 

Robinson, John B 078,679 487 C.H. 

Royster, Francis AY 47 360 F. 

Resell, B.L 79,80 763 F. 

Ross, A 71 204 T. 

Roll, Mrs. Sarah A 24 210 F. 

Royster, Francis W 44 96 F. 

Rodgers, Wm 180 295 C.H. 

Rodgers, John F 65J 450 C.H.C. 

Rodgers, Yolney P., Estate of. 66 666 C.H.C. 

Rogers, H. A 14 130 8.G. 

Rogers, Joseph 516 131 T. 

Rogers, Mary Ann 329 337 T. 

Rogers, Azel A 409 96 F. 

Roseborough, Mrs. S 54 743 T. 

Ross, Miss Kate 241 112 T. 

Ross, Mrs. Lizzie 136,138 546 F. 

Ross, Alfred 70 100 Col'd. 

Rossel, Marion J 510 262 C.H. 

Robertson, Joseph R 473 HO T. 

Robertson, Sue 74 230 F. 

Roland, J. G 426 262 C.H. 

Roach, Andrew J 35^ 370 C.H.C. 

Roach, Eliza 08 100 Col'd. 

Rajoux, Marcus, and M. W. Jones 119 230 C.H. 

Rogerson, MaryA 556 125 T. 

Rootes, Wm. M., and Emily Taylor 576 375 C.H. 

Roosa, Jos. S., and Henry James 261^ 235 F. 

Russell, Joseph E 199^ 168 S.G. 

Rudy, Josephine 384 166 T. 

Rehkoff, Dorothea 535 230 T. 

Read, Samuel P 14 270 L.C. 

Rudisill, Mrs. M 199 150 C.H. 

Rudisill, Mrs 23 270 T. 

Rutland, S. W 234 266 T. 

Ruvers, B. H 43 103 F. 



212 



Ehnwood Cemetery. 



NAMES OF TROPRIETORS. NO. LOT. NO. FT. SEC. 

Ruleman, W. J 337 167 T. 

Riileman, Mrs. Mury 336 203 T. 

Ruffiii, James D 11-^-23 600 F. 

Riuld, Alex., and Wra. H. Keiinedey 147 236 T. 

Kuinbough, Geo. P. C 10 380 S.G. 

Rudelhuber, Annie C 639 173 T. 

Rambling, Christine, and J. Bengert 698 154 C.H. 

Rogers, Spencer C 519 180 T. 

Ravnor, Eli 28 311 L.C. 



Sannoner, J. A 

Sanoner, Phillis 

Saffaran s, John L 

Sandford, L. M ,:,,. 

Sample, J. A 

Saint, W. J 

Sangster, Caroline M. 

Saunders, Thos. F., Heirs of. 

Saunders, Thos. B 

Saunders, P. W 

Saunders, Joanna JM 

Saunders, Anna J 

Sanderson, W m 

Samuels, Alexander 

Saint, J. M., Heirs of. 

Salisbury, W. T. , Estate of. 

Schoonover, Josej)h , 

Schwoob, Joseph 

Scott, T. J ■. 

Schmalzried, G. P., and Weilcr & Co — 

Schneider, John J 

Scbniidt, John 

Schnerring, Mary, and John Frick 

Schmidt, John G 

Scales, Joseph W 

Scarbrough, Alfred M., and Cin. Jackson 
Scott, Robert, and J. Patton Anderson... 

Searcy, Granville D 

Serle, Mrs. Francis 

Seldeu, C. J 



6 
99 
50 
127 
152 
175 
214 
203 
152 
149 
499 
202 
505 
386 
280 
241 
255 
484 
303 

189, 190 
538 
163 
285 
1671 
201 
12 

. ■ 516 
101 
166 
186 



427 
108 
1152 
430 
145 
89 
263 
110 
162 
154 
108 
232 
119 
170 
396 
114 
504 
270 
294 
940 
205 
221 
216 
160 
208 
493 
270 
504 
201 
264 



C.H. 

Col'd. 

C.H. 

C.H. 

C.H. 

T. 

T. 

T. 

T. 

T. 

T. 

S.G. 

F. 

T. 

C.H. 

F. 

T. 

C.H. 

C.H. 

F. 

C.H. 

T. 

C.H. 

T. 

S.G. 

L.C. 

C.H. 

C.H. 

C.H. 

C.H. 



List of Proprietors. 2 1 3 



NAMES OF PROPRIETORS. NO. LOT. 

Sevier, John 2()o 

Sewall, p]dward G 1")1 

Seawright, Mrs. Nancy 90 

Sebralle, Chas 240 

Sellers, J. F., W. W. R. McClelland, and 

W. F. Boyle 184 

Semore, Thos 364 

Seckler, J., and J. Bearer 283 

Sevier, John 63 

Selby, Louis 16 

Shanks, Dr. Louis 85 

Shanks, D. W 270 

Shaw, A. B 631 

Shepard, D. A 46, 49 

Shroyer, W. P 122 

Shelby, John 103 

Shelby, M. D 571 

Shelby, Kaney, and K A. Bill 270 

Shall, George. 130 

Shelton, Mrs. N. C 544 

Shelton, A. J ,. 438 

Shepherd, J. H 78 

Shirley, Anna 264 

Shaw, Jane A. L 730 

Shock, Emma M 601 

Sherman, George, and G. W. Taylor 284 

Shipway, Margaret 257, 258 

Shelton, Margaret A 222 

Shelby, Mathew 525 

Sharpe, J. B., and H. C. and C. M. Horton 69 

Sims, Sarah E 589 

Simister, Abel 392 

Simmons, S. R 249 

Sims, L. S. , Heirs of 247 

Singleton, Milton 563 

Sims, John A., and Jas. T. Peyton 55 

Slippy, Catharine 198 

Smith, Fred. W 87 

Smith, Sarah 150 

Smither, G 245 



NO. FT. 


SEC. 


325 


C.H. 


202 


T. 


173 


F. 


110 


T. 


736 


F. 


76 


T. 


406 


C.H. 


100 


Col'd. 


311 


L.C. 


540 


C.H. 


288 


C.H. 


500 


C.H. 


288 


F. 


270 


F. 


262 


T. 


999 


T. 


365 


F. 


612 


F. 


139 


C.H. 


80 


T. 


299 


T. 


246 


T. 


138 


C.H. 


340 


C.H. 


310 


T. 


275 


F. 


425 


T. 


249 


T. 


420 


T. 


120 


C.H. 


135 


C.H. 


972 


T. 


472 


T. 


140 


C.H. 


402 


C.H.C 


96 


S.G. 


1182 


C.H. 


190 


C.H. 


345 


C.H. 



214 



Elmwood Cemetery. 



NAMES OF PROPRIETORS. NO. 

Smith wick, A. A 

Smithwick, J. F 

Smith, George W 

Smith, ]Mrs. Henrietta 

Small, H. D., and G. P. Foute 

Small, Charles 

Smith, H 

Smith, Keck & Co 

Smith, Keck & Co 

Smith, O wen 

Smith , Owen 

Smith, Owen 

Smith, Lem 

Smith, HenryG 

Smith, Owen 

Smith, O wen 

Smith, Owen 

Smith, O wen 

Smith , O wen 

Smith, Owen 

Smith , Owen 

Smith, Owen 

Smith, Owen 

Smith, James M, B 

Smith, Wm. J 

Smith, Wm. C 

Smith, Sarah C 

Smith, George Y 

Sneed, William 

Southworth, A. W 288, 

Southworth, Mrs. M. P ne^ 

Southworth, Wm. S 

Sory, M. L 107, 

Sossaman, Edw'd, and W. G. Mcllvain... 

Spivery, J 

Spicer, INIrs. J. E 

Spiegel, Dr. Christian 

Spicer, Caroline P 

Specht, Joseph 

Spech t, Joseph 



LOT. 


NO. FT. 


SEC. 


48 


187 


F. 


51 


153 


F. 


59 


631 


F. 


114 


264 


F. 


102 


290 


T. 


155 


132 


T. 


562 


135 


C.H. 


272 


145 


T. 


271 


168 


T. 


320 


131 


T. 


319 


115 


T. 


339 


200 


T. 


122 


296 


T. 


183 


608 


F. 


321 


130 


T. 


435 


192 


T. 


106 


600 


Col'd. 


410 


247 


T. 


94 


1368 


Col'd. 


111 


600 


Col'd. 


409 


200 


T. 


408 


190 


T. 


112 


600 


Col'd. 


404 


104 


C.H. 


59 


300 


C.H. 


517 


155 


T. 


33 


375 


L.C. 


5061 


206 


T. 


118 


114 


Col'd. 


289 


574 


C.H. 


349 


600 


C.H. 


62 


585 


C.H.C, 


108 


430 


T. 


453 


301 


T. 


225 


323 


C.H. 


249 


198 


C.H. 


368 


266 


C.H. 


99 


322 


F. 


137 


342 


T. 


132 


235 


T. 



List of Proprietors, 



215 



NAMES OF PROPRIETORS. NO. LOT. 

;Spore, Daniel 164 

.Speed, John H., and E. A. Spotswood. ... 04 

Steele, John 137^ 

Steiver, Mary 640 

Sick, John G 536 

■Smith, Benjamin F 354 

Starke, Junius B 27 

Strain & King 31 

Strange, John P 107 

Stout, W. C 157 

.Stewart, E. P 300 

Stevenson, Susan 380 

Strickland, W. H 13 

Stout, M. J 65 

Street, A., and J. C. Dougherty 123, 124, 125 

Steinkuhl, Jacob 436 

Strange, Mrs. Maria E 53 

Stevens, Ambrose 60 

Stone, E. K , and W. C. Bryant 236 

Stidger, Rowland R 273 

Street, Jas. A 131 , 

Stewart, Thomas 136 

Stoner, I. R., Estate of 578 

Steen, Andrew 572 

Stoddard, John 495 

Stevens, E. P 143 

Stevenson, Mrs. J. H 751 

Stewart, Thos 429 

Stanton, John S 186 

Stewart, Wm. L 570 

Stebbins, John R 245 

Stout, N. H 501 

Stacy, Margaret L 242 

Stewart, James 21 

Steever, Henry C 530 

Staebler, Mary E 370 

Storz, John, and David Scheehle 247^^ 

Stovall, George A 60^ 

Stratton, John T (part of lot) 299 

Stocksiager, Geo. K 439 



NO. FT. 


SEC. 


136 


T. 


520 


C.H.C. 


220 


F. 


136 


T. 


162 


T. 


222 


T. 


300 


C.H. 


276 


C.H. 


225 


C.H. 


330 


C.H. 


1200 


C.H. 


229 


C.H. 


150 


S.G. 


180 


C.H. 


934 


F. 


262 


C.H. 


176 


F. 


262 


S.G. 


191 


C.H. 


105 


C.H. 


189 


T. 


175 


T. 


286 


C.H. 


234 


C.H. 


262 


C.H. 


216 


T. 


144 


C.H. 


386 


T. 


704 


F. 


1020 


T. 


152 


F. 


262 


C.H. 


130 


F. 


100 


Col'd. 


304 


F. 


195 


T. 


210 


F. 


568 


C.H.C. 


1644 


C.H. 


108 


T. 



2l6 



Elmwood Cemetery. 



NAMES OF PROPRIETOKS. NO. 

Starke, E. Temple 

Sterling, La vinia 

Stewart, AVm. and Meacham 

Schilling, Jacob and Ebeler 

Schm uck, Louis 

Sullivan, Mrs. Ann E.. 

Schurmeyer, John F 

Sutton, Joshua B 

Smith, Louisa, and Yates 

Strother, Charles H 

Swann, Orange 

Svveetland, Mrs. M. J 

Sweet, F 

Swayne, John T 198, 

Swan, Wm. G 

Swan, Paralee 

Swoope, Chas. C. and Elizabeth T 

Shepard, C. R 

Sanford, Joseph 

Spivey, Wm. V 

Schafer, Fred. C 

Sullivan, Charles L 

Scott, R. and Mrs. Anderson 

Smith, Mr. and Mrs. B. P 

Stewart, Andrew and Hugh 

Sutton, Mrs. Emily 

Taylor, Arthur K 

Taylor, G,, and H, Fitzgerald 

Taylor, A. B 

Taylor, Wiley P 

Taylor, John H 58,61 

Taylor, John F., and J. F. Thomas 

Taylor, Geo. W., and Geo. Sherman 

Taylor, Wm. H 

Taylor, Ann E 

Taylor, Emily, and Wm. W. Rootes 

Taylor, Wm. F 

Tailor, Mrs. N. E 

Tate, Samuel 



LOT. 


NO. FT. 


SEC. 


579* 


210 


T. 


180 


96 


S.G. 


80 


910 


L.C. 


348 


259 


T. 


.6751 


96 


C.H, 


42 


126 


F. 


651 


144 


T. 


650 


96 


T. 


4 


150 


Col'd. 


723 


130 


T. 


332 


306 


C.H. 


56 


171 


F. 


409 


108 


C.H. 


245 


560 


T. 


18 


112 


S.G. 


17 


108 


S.G. 


7 


500 


C.H.C 


494 


262 


C.H. 


653 


96 


T. 


628 


130 


T. 


658 


240 


T. 


441 


117 


T. 


469 


457 


F. 


625 


102 


T. 


81 


644 


L.C. 


263 


360 


T. 


24 


1225 


C.H, 


32 


225 


C.H. 


70 


312 


T. 


9 


441 


S.G. 


,61 


812 


F. 


182 


703 


F. 


284 


310 


T. 


220 


275 


T. 


523 


150 


T. 


576 


375 


C.H. 


33 


670 


C.H.C. 


156 


169 


T. 


12 


1122 


C.H. 



List of Propinetors. 2 1 7 



NAMES OF TROPRIETOKS. NO. LOT. NO. FT. SEC. 

Tate, Wm 46 350 C.H. 

Tanner, W.G 61 242 C.H. 

Tate, J. M 184 281 C.H. 

Tanney, O. G 22 80 F. 

Tanner, J. G '.. 107 208 F. 

Talmadge, Henry 48G 262 C.H. 

Tate, J. H .'. 300 99 T. 

Tagg, Joseph 180 952 F. 

Taft, Frank 574 710 T. 

Talbert, Maria Louis 203 138 S.G. 

Taggart, Eleanor J 761 200 C.H. 

Tally, Cellie 18^ 266 C.H.C. 

Tait, David 524^ 156 T. 

Temple, M. M 70 360 C.H. 

Teufel, Joseph 328 109 C.H. 

Teufel, Xaver 329 99 C.H. 

Terry, J. C, and B. D. Hodges 181 750 F. 

Teager, George W 590 160 T. 

Thumel, Dr. A 334, 335 191 C.H. 

Thoma, George 346 222 T. 

Thompson, Waddy 4 455 C.H.C, 

Thompson, Eose P 615 532 T. 

Thomas, John H 534 155 T. 

Thomas, DavidD 249 162 F. 

Thompson, Harry 686 96 T. 

Titus, Frazer 159, 160 650 C.H. 

Townsend, David H 100 1160 C.H. 

Townsmann, Carl F 199 125 T. 

Torian, K. T 109,111 399 T. 

Toof, John S. and Agnes 201 528 F. 

Townsend, G. G. and J 11 371 >S.G. 

Tounsley, Louis 297 138 T. 

Tobin, JohnP 594 154 C.H. 

Tozer, Charles C 515 158 T. 

Treadwell, A. C 25,26 385 T. 

Trigg, John 620,621 780 C.H. 

Trotter, G. W 51 175 T. 

Trice, T. H 151 270 F. 

Trader, Mrs. M. C, and Mrs. E. K. New- 

som 54 247 F. 



2i8 Elmwood Cemetery. 



NAMES OF PROPRIETORS. NO. LOT. 

Trezevant, N. M 221 

Trice, Sarah W 215 

Trudeau, Louisa 299 

Trezevant, John T 21 

Trezevant, B. R 657 

Trout, Thomas 190 

Trenary, Washburn 479 

Turley, T. J 5 

Tufts, Peter E 250 

Tufts, James 186 

Tucker, T. J 295 

Tucker, Mary E. and Agnes W., and S. 

E.Coffee s ^23 

Turner, Chas. W 255 

Tuggle, John J., Estate of 44 

Turner, Wm. P 483 

Thompson, Thomas T 454 

Thompson, Jacob 116 

Tally, Frank 100 

Thornton, Gustavus A 582 

Tanner, Jacob J f.... 584 

Teague, Thomas and Henry 505, 511 

Toof, Stephen C 105 

Uhlmann, Julia 509^ 

Underwood, A. G., Heirs of. 171 

Underbill, Robert B 514i 

Upshaw, James R 72 

Urquhart, Edward 17 

Vance, C. C 82 

VanHorne, John 603 

Vaden, W. P 81 

Vancleve, Harry L 263 

VanPelt, Henry 294 

VanBrocklin, B. F 296 

Vergison, R 272 

Verser, John L 277 

Venable, Joseph and Gilbert M 59^ 

Vollintine, H 178, 179 

Voarna, Fred 564^ 



NO. FT. 


SEC. 


976 


T. 


278 


F. 


110 


T. 


544 


S.G. 


262 


C.H. 


172 


T. 


228 


T. 


1200 


T. 


180 


C.H. 


165 


T. 


127 


T. 


600 


F. 


115 


F. 


325 


S.G. 


93 


F. 


222 


T. 


1138 


L.C. 


144 


Col'd. 


367 


T. 


225 


C.H. 


374 


T. 


216 


F. 


126 


T. 


240 


T. 


80 


T. 


352 


C.H. 


330 


C.H.C 


288 


C.H. 


165 


C.H. 


840 


T. 


112 


C.H. 


238 


C.H. 


149 


T. 


135 


C.H. 


243 


F. 


479 


C.H.C 


377 


T. 


150 


C.H. 



List of Proprietors. 219 



NAMES OF PROPRIETORS. NO. LOT. NO. FT. SEC. 

Yoorhies, Cornelius Y 285 287 F. 

Vcegeli, John W 578 500 T. 

Watkins, E. F 3 1107 C.H. 

Walker, Henry C 40 1155 C.H. 

Walker, S.P 239 1120 C.H. 

Walker, Samuel P 284, 286, 287 1137 C.H. 

Walker, Samuel P 1 262 Col'd. 

Walker & Barnett 216 1160 C.H. 

Walker, Wm., and A. Warren 297, 298 489 C.H. 

Walker, Mrs. L. M 257 228 C.H. 

Walker, Harriet 105 162 Col'd. 

AVatson, Samuel 19 627 C.H.C. 

Watson, Mrs. P 493 262 C.H. 

Watson, Elbert L 583i- 413 T. 

Wallace, R 108 208 C.H. 

Wallace, A 176 400 C.H. 

Wallace, Samuel R 70 262 S.G. 

Wallace, R D 599 270 C.H. 

Wade, Henry 165 228 C.H. 

Want, \y 222 280 C.H. 

Waldran, W. B 549, 550, 552, 553 526 C.H. 

Warner, S. A 76 207 T. 

Warner, F.L 315 240 C.H. 

Warner, W. C, and Anton F. Heuer 413 240 C.H. 

AVare, John, Heirs of. 442 262 C.H. 

Wachter, George, and D. Zweifel 109 520 F. 

Walton, E. J 512 262 C.H. 

Walt, R. P 623 787 C.H. 

Waymon, Mrs. Ann 41 240 F. 

Waggener, J. H 254 493 T. 

Wareham,John 185 198 T. 

AVasson, Garrison 414 320 C.H. 

AYard, R. D 378 437 C.H. 

AVard, Josephine 89 430 C.H. 

AVasson, J. B 666 240 C.H. 

AVait, Francis 471 174 T. 

AVaymon, Kate 5421 108 T. 

AA^ard, Miss Jane, and Thos. B. Coffey 389 235 T. 

AVallace, Mrs. Elizabeth A 736 144 F. 



220 



Elmwood Cemetery. 



NAMES OF PROPEIETORS. NO. LOT. 

West, J. H 3:^8 

"Webb, Mrs. Arianne 115 

Wells, Wm. E 265 

Withei-spoon, A. D 20 

Weller, Jacob 12B 

Wells, R. H 381 

Wesche, F 267 

Webb, W. H 219 

Webb, S. M 195 

Wendlandt, John 279 

Weld, John B 585 

Wetmore, N. D 113 

Weidt, George 252 

Weatherford, Joseph S 527 

Webber, Ed. B. and Mrs. N. M 208 

Wellford, J. L 60^ 

AVebb, Wni. J., and Mrs. S. E. Green... 209 

Weatherbee, Elizabeth 600 

Wehruni, Louis 97 

Welch, Michael D 45 

Wells, Caroline 101 

Weatherford, George K 192 

Wheatley, Seth 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33 

Wheatley, Lawson 27 

White, Joseph 323 

Whitfield, F. E 17 

White, Joseph 39 

Wheaton, A. G 171 

Whitfield, Mrs. Emma 57 

Whipple, Anson 85 

White, A. J 388 

Wheeler, A. J 502 

Whipple, Ann 91 

Whitelaw, Wm 187^ 

White, Dr. Josiah 177 

Whitten, Susan, and W. V. Busby, and 

K. Pollock 748 

White, Henry 362 

White, Wm. H. and Emily 57 

White, Clark C 274 



NO. FT. 


SEC. 


88 


C.H. 


456 


F. 


457 


C.H. 


271 


C.H. 


260 


T. 


89 


T. 


170 


T. 


200 


F. 


426 


F. 


368 


C.H. 


270 


C.H. 


202 


T. 


124 


F. 


189 


T. 


306 


F. 


175 


S.G. 


366 


F. 


96 


F. 


238 


C.H. 


505 


C.H.C, 


108 


Col'd. 


120 


S.G. 


1041 


T. 


175 


T. 


117 


C.H. 


450 


T. 


262 


S.G. 


325 


C.H. 


316 


F. 


560 


T. 


138 


C.H. 


262 


C.H. 


221 


F. 


238 


F. 


96 


S.G. 


170 


C.H. 


150 


T. 


250 


S.G. 


432 


F. 



List of PropiHetors. 



221 



NAMES OF PROPRIETORS. NO. LOT. 

Whitaker, Wm 95 

White, Grin 497 

AVheaton, S. M 60 

AVilliams, Mrs. Nannie H 1000 

AVilliams, Joseph 11 2 

Wilkin.son, T. W 54 

Wilson, David 296 

AVicks, M. J 357 

AVilson, David 412 

Williams, E 62 

Williamson, F. H 97 

Witt, M. M 174 

Wiley, John 557, 558 

Wilkins, Wm. G., Heirs of. 3 

Wilson, George 69 

Winford, A. G 56 

Winchester, George 131 

Winston, Helen M 14 

Williams, J. Rush 256 

Williamson, S. B 258 

Williamson, A. G 683 

Williams, Dr. J. A 286 

Wills, P. B 708 

Winn, K. J. B. L 202 

Wiegaud, Mary 211 

Williams, Mrs. Thos. H 213 

Williams, W. A 193 

Williams, Henry G 323 

Wintter, Dietrich 143 

Williams, Eobert H 461 

Williamson, James M 59 

Wilton, Harry C 622i 

Williams, George L 577 

Wilson, S. A., and H. M. James 661 

Wilson, Dr. A 428 

Williamson, James M 77 

Williams, J. D 78 

Williams, Ann 533 

Wilkerson, Jno. W., and Jas. D. Quigley 722 

Williams, Henry B. S 466 



NO. FT. 


SEC. 


238 


F. 


110 


T. 


304 


T. 


96 


T. 


1120 


C.H. 


1134 


C.H. 


220 


C.H. 


307 


C.H. 


171 


C.H. 


262 


S.G. 


288 


T. 


94 


T. 


263 


C.H. 


322 


F. 


128 


F. 


382 


T. 


272 


F. 


365 


F. 


525 


T. 


1105 


T. 


337 


C.H. 


348 


T. 


323 


C.H. 


673 


F. 


246 


F. 


396 


F. 


490 


F. 


175 


T. 


306 


F. 


100 


C.H. 


207 


Col'd. 


390 


C.H. 


160 


F. 


486 


C.H. 


262 


C.H. 


1287 


L.C. 


1258 


L.C. 


150 


F. 


280 


C.H. 


287 


T. 



222 Elmwood Cemetery. 



NAMES OF PROPRIETORS. NO. LOT. NO. FT. SEC. 

Wilson, AVm.P 18 364 L.C. 

Worley, Caleb 88 378 C.H. 

Woodward, J. M 132 252 C.H. 

Woodward, O. C 98,99 648 T. 

Woodworth, J 195 i26 C.H. 

Wooldridge, E 224 238 C.H. 

Wormeley, Ralph 241 436 C.H. 

Woods, Elizabeth S 489 262 C.H. 

Worsham, J. J 16, 91, 92, 93 752 T. 

Woltering, J. W 37 220 F. 

Wood, Albert M (3 375 C.H.C. 

Wood, Mrs. Laura 570 193 C.H. 

Woodruff, Elizabeth 550 132 T. 

AVilliamson, Milton T 595 262 T. 

Wiggin, Norris J 70 356 L.C. 

Wood, Wra. A., Martin and Hill 79 1075 L.C. 

Woodruff, Amos 40 578 L.C. 

Wray, Mrs. C. M 172 189 T. 

Wright, Stephen H. P 560 140 C.H. 

Wright, Archibald 75 450 C.H.C. 

Wray, James R... 2 271 F, 

Wynne, Mrs. Sarah T. 185 273 C.H. 

Wright, Thomas J , 42 417 L.C. 

Word, E. H., and Beard 4 472 S.G. 

Yates, Meredith 83 299 T. 

Yerby, Melinda 247 228 T. 

Yerger, Edwin M 333 323 T. 

Young, Misses 244 308 C.H. 

Young, Dr. James 7 451 C.H. 

Young, Rev. James 322 160 C.H. 

Yongue, Dr. James 110 175 F. 

Yates, Adaline and Smith 4 150 Col'd. 

Yahrling, John 283 133 T. 

Zachariah, Margaret A 202 110 T. 

Zausch, Henrietta 38 209 F. 

Zent, John 200 336 F. 

Zweifel, D., andGeo. Wachter 109 520 F. 

Number of proprietors March 1st, 1874 1,671 

Number of interments to March 1st, 1874 13,258 



CURBING REGULATIONS. 



NOTE. — Lots in Elmwood may be inclosed with stone "curbing" 
under the following restrictions and regulations : 

1. The curbing must be of approved material and of good stone, 
and in every case on the boundary line of adjoining lots, one-half on 
each lot. 

2. There shall be no double curbing, or posts side by side on 
adjoining lots. 

3. No curbing already perfected and put down shall be removed 
or changed without the consent of the lot-owner. 

4. The owners of adjacent lots should share equally the cost of that 
part of the curbing common to both lots. 

The object of these rules is to perpetuate the symmetrical collocation 
of lots, and preserve the order and beauty of lots in the Cemetery. 
The Company reserves the right to mediate and settle disputes between 
lot-ownel's. 



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